Deepak Chopra: redefining "wrong"

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Dec 2, 2009 12:55 AMNov 19, 2019 9:23 PM

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I am no fan of Deepak Chopra. For years he has gone on TV, in print, and in his books, peddling all manners of nonsense. Here's a quick reality check: if his claims of "quantum healing" are correct, why is he getting older? Anyway, he has gone to the very font of new age nonsense, the Huffington Post, to spew more woo: he's written an article about why skepticism is bad. It's almost a bullet-pointed list of logical fallacies. About the "poison darts" of criticism:

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