What's he doing in the 21st century? Well, the same thing of course, only with a more contemporary vocabulary. Michael Shermer on Deepak Chopra's "quantum flapdoodle"
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Michael Shermer has has an excellent essay responding to Deepak Chopra's “quantum flapdoodle.”
Chopra's use and abuse of quantum physics is what the Caltech quantum physicist and Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann calls “quantum flapdoodle,” which consists of stringing together a series of terms and…
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Remember Deepak Chopra?
He's the physician (yes, physician) whose grasp on real science is so tenuous and whose ability to abuse multiple scientific disciplines, ranging from quantum physics to astronomy to genetics to medicine, simultaneously in the service of woo is so amazing that a few years…
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