Deepak Chopra visited Vancouver, BC…and CFI was prepared with flyers and volunteers handing them out to people going to the talk. It's an excellent example of how to effectively and informatively deal with pseudoscientific nonsense. Oh, and they actually had Chopra come out and talk with them, although it sounds like he didn't say much of substance. But then, he never does.
One thing I'd like to see, though, is that they make copies of their flyers available on the web. Chopra isn't going to vanish, and having more material that other groups can use when engaging wacky quantum woo artists would be useful.
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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