Unfortunately, this is the state of our discourse. Some quack hears technical jargon, then spews it back out in front of people with no experience in the topic and they can be taken as seriously as the people who spent years ACTUALLY studying the topic.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... -is-wrong/
More in depth.
http://skepticblog.org/2009/11/16/deepa ... ics-again/
You see that in the evolution debate, young earth creationism, the study of the brain, radiometric dating... oh and don't even mention the laws of thermal dynamics.Chopra is using a common trick of the pseudoscientist – exploiting cutting edge science, which the public is not likely to understand, and pretend as if there is proof where there is uncertainty. Take some interesting experiments, then leap way ahead to conclusions that serve their metaphysical purposes, but which are not settled science.
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Chopra really needs to have a conversation with a real quantum physicist. You would think that before someone makes a career out of promoting a specific scientific interpretation to the public they would make sure they got the science right. But I suspect Chopra doesn’t care about getting the science right. He seems to be working backwards from his metaphysics, and then happily misinterpreting QM to suit his needs.
It's easy. You just slap two people on a split screen, say that they have a degree and just like that, POOF, instant expert.
nevermind that the opposition has a degree in "truthology" from falwell university.