I have a confession to make: I have a passionate hatred for Deepak Chopra. I think the man is a complete and utter fraud. So I'm always glad to see people give him the thorough reeming he deserves so much. Orac has a good one here. Chopra is someone whose funeral I would actually protest outside of. The guy has spent a lifetime telling people that their "quantum power" can allow them to live forever. When he dies, a few signs calling him a fraud seems pretty reasonable to me. And perhaps the millions he has earned fleecing the credulous can be put to some good use.
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Orac is currently hiding from the Federation in an undisclosed location (somewhere warm and out of the country, the better to avoid election news after having cast an absentee ballot), where he is charging his Tarial cells, the better to return fully recharged and ready to dive back into the mass
I realize that this has been posted by a lot of people on Facebook and around the blogosphere, but I can't resist.
Last week, everyone's favorite woo-meister, the man whose woo is so strong that I even coined a term for it way back in the early mists of time (at least as far as this blog is concerned), was
I'd pour a glass of whiskey on the grave, after filterin' it through me kidneys.
Deepak Chopra and his ilk may be (loosely) termed the "Spiritual Left's" answer to the Religious Right's Creationism. It's another attempt to merge science and religion by claiming that "materialistic mainstream scientists" aren't as open, informed, and downright scientific as people who aren't afraid to let ALL of reality inform our science theories, and bring in the supernatural truths.
What "confession?" I'm not at all surprised you don't like Chopra. Bad science is bad science, and the smugness and self-righteousness seems to be the same whether we're dealing with New Age or Fundamentalist.
I can't stand this touchy-feely mishmash of science and new agism either.
Anyone see that ridiculous "What the bleep do we know?"
Sheesh!
I concur. Chopra is a fraud, and an idiot. Exhibits A and B:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/10/deepak_chopra_does_it_again…
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/moonbat_anti_evolutionist_d…
He's made millions selling people lies. Fundamentally, what he does is no different than what evangelical Christians do, he just presents it in wishy-washy, feel-good rhetoric that appeals to more progressive, even secular people.
Deepak Chopra will never "die" -- when his biological processes stop functioning, he will "move to a higher plane of existence" or "become one with the universe through the quantization of his conscious essence." (My bet is on the latter)