Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2020-07-08
Books mentioned on #1504 - Alan Levinovitz
Dr. Alan Levinovitz is an author and Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University.
Joe Rogan discussed Natural by Alan Levinovitz and The Rhetoric of Science by Alan G. Gross. Alan Levinovitz recommended The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray, discussed Against the Grain by James C. Scott and The ecological Indian by Shepard Krech, and criticized Power Up Your Brain by David Perlmutter and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Natural
Natural by Alan Levinovitz deconstructs the cultural obsession with all things natural, exploring how the human reliance on the concept frequently leads to flawed moral judgments, pseudoscientific health trends, and marketing deception.
Discussed“I started your book which I very rarely read books I mostly do audiobooks but I was forced to read yours”
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The Rhetoric of Science
Discussed“I started your book which I very rarely read books I mostly do audiobooks but I was forced to read yours”
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Against the Grain
Why people recommend it: Challenging traditional assumptions about the rise of human civilization and the origins of state control, Against the Grain by James C.
Discussed“there's a great book called against the grain written by a by a guy who he's a land he thinks that we need to be easier on the past and harder on the president in this book”
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The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray is a provocative contemporary commentary that investigates the cultural, social, and political shifts surrounding modern identity politics, intersectionality, and public discourse.
Recommended“and this is something that James Lindsay had pointed out and Douglas Murray has a great book about it in in in a lot of the areas that we're talking about what's going on is a religion”
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The ecological Indian
Discussed“that that painting I know I was like sounds familiar like he's talking about that it was on the cover of a book called the ecological Indian I think it's called by a guy named Shepherd Kretsch”
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Power Up Your Brain
Power Up Your Brain by David Perlmutter, M.D.
Critiqued“he started with this his self-published book called like I don't know like brain saving dot-com or something and back then he had a totally different line on it”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“remember there was that one guy wrote a book it turns out he yeah yeah made up everything that was in the book and dr. oz is he they brought him before Congress”
“if you have to tell you your book one more time natural hold it up so people could see it where do I wear my holding it towards this camera yeah it's that natural how faith in nature's goodness leads to harmful fads unjust laws and flawed science”
“if you have to tell you your book one more time natural hold it up so people could see it where do I wear my holding it towards this camera yeah it's that natural how faith in nature's goodness leads to harmful fads unjust laws and flawed science”