The Fallacy of Eating The Way Your Great-Grandmother Ate.

Been saying this for years. Pollan’s stuff is kind of like Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: it’s pseudo-intellectual crapola that makes midwits feel smart. To be fair I was taken in by some of it, but then I thought about it for 10 minutes and I was like, this is garbage advice.

Pollan is a liberal example of the 1950s-yearning conservative.