Deepak Chopra: His BIO

[articulett]

I've read on many skeptical blogs and sites that Deepak claims that to prevent or cure cataracts, simply brush your teeth, scrape your tongue and use that spit to flush the eye. However, none of these sites have actually referenced where and when he said this.

Does anyone know?

and you didn't referenxe which skeptic blogs said such things...I've never read this, and I am a pretty big reader of skeptical blogs--

 

[articulett]

I've been wondering about his looks. He argues that he can at least stop - or slow down - ageing, but what about his looks over time? Does he show signs of ageing himself?

Yeah...and he has a diet book out too...he seems chubby to me...

but I don't take anything he says seriously...he gets lots of money, asskissing, and power for talking about "souls", and there isn't any evidence for the existence of souls.

 

[articulett]

http://www.intouchmag.com/chopra.html



I am going to spend the remainder of my day willing myself younger. I'll keep everyone posted as to how this is working out.

I'm going to practice wiggling by mammary glands by thinking about it.

Maybe we should all try to get a critical mass of consciousness thing going where we think of the "woos" evolving intelligence... If we all think hard enough...

 

[articulett]

Hail the amazing one...

I think of James Randi as a great spiritual leader.

Deepak is a wannabe.

Randi speaks truth.

 

[thaiboxerken]

http://www.baskeptics.org/chopra.htm

http://skepdic.com/chopra.html

These are just a couple of skeptic sources that reference Deepak Chopra's "cure" for cataracts.

 

[T'ai Chi]

Are you afraid you might find out you've been investing a lot of time, money, effort, hope, and self congratualtions, over a bunch of crap?

Yeah, posting on certain boards.

 

[Luke T.]

If I was a Nobel Prize Winner, I think I'd be pretty ticked off at Chopra for dropping my name as being in the same company.

Luke T bio:

As a regular eater of pizza, Luke T. joins the distinguished company of Mother Theresa, Harrison Ford, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Paris Hilton as an excreter of bodily wastes.

 

[T'ai Chi]

If I was a Nobel Prize Winner, I think I'd be pretty ticked off at Chopra for dropping my name as being in the same company.

If he received the same award or whatever, you are effectively saying you are ticked off by a fact.

 

[thaiboxerken]

It's a fact that the Pope poops as well.

 

[T'ai Chi]

It's a fact that the Pope poops as well.

Winning that award that Chopra and others did takes effort and talent though.

Eating pizza or pooping does not.

 

[thaiboxerken]

What are the requirements for the award in question? Oh, he had money and helped created an organization. This, however, doesn't equivocate him to being a Nobel Laueriate, as his bio would have people believe. It's clever marketing, but it doesn't really work on skeptical people.

 

[T'ai Chi]

What are the requirements for the award in question?

Maybe do the most basic work and look up the requirements on the page in question.

Oh, he had money and helped created an organization.

And speak/lecture. And motivate. And author. And other stuff, not to mention his impressive academic credentials.

This, however, doesn't equivocate him to being a Nobel Laueriate, as his bio would have people believe.

Who said he is equated with a Nobel Laureate? I certainly didn't read that from it. I think you are biased and reading what you'd like to argue against into it. And again, if you dislike that he won an award that also a Nobel laureate won, you are arguing against a fact, which is rather pseudo-skeptical, despite you claiming to be skeptical.

It really is starting to sound like you are jealous of Chorpa and all that he has accomplished. That is what it sounds like to me because you're being ultra skeptical of claims that aren't even paranormal in nature.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Tai Chi, the fact is that he implied that he's as good as a Nobel Laureate when he mentions "Nobel Lauriate" in his bio. He didn't win awards the Nobel Lauriates won, he simply "is a founding director of the Alliance for the New Humanity."

He's bolstering his credentials, it's a marketing ploy. It is very much like Luke T's analogy. As a regular eater of pizza, Luke T. joins the distinguished company of Mother Theresa, Harrison Ford, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Paris Hilton as an excreter of bodily wastes.

Then again, you probably don't understant this because you're an idiot.

 

[CFLarsen]

And speak/lecture. And motivate. And author. And other stuff, not to mention his impressive academic credentials.

What do you find impressive about his academic credentials? (Apparently, you can investigate this, but deride skeptics if they do the same)

Accroding to his bio, he has been the "Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center" and "built a successful endocrinology practice in Boston in the 1980's".

This is interesting, though:

His teaching affiliations included Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine.

Note that he didn't say that he was employed there. A guest lecturer, perhaps? Hardly a paragon of academia - you can feed pigs with guest lecturers.

It really is starting to sound like you are jealous of Chorpa and all that he has accomplished. That is what it sounds like to me because you're being ultra skeptical of claims that aren't even paranormal in nature.

Chopras claims are certainly paranormal in nature. He bases his whole schtick on the paranormal.

Do claims have to be extraordinary before we can investigate them?

Why do you think that skeptics should not check the credentials of people who peddle superstitious beliefs?

 

[thaiboxerken]

I think Tai Chi is really unreachable with logic and reasoning. It's like trying to teach a dog how to drive a car.

 

[CFLarsen]

I think Tai Chi is really unreachable with logic and reasoning. It's like trying to teach a dog how to drive a car.

I disagree.

He is reachable. He just chooses not to be.

That is, of course, far, far worse than being unreachable. Being ignorant is one thing. Being willingly ignorant is another. Quite more serious, more far-reaching.

 

[Aoidoi]

I think Tai Chi is really unreachable with logic and reasoning. It's like trying to teach a dog how to drive a car.

Of course not. Only cats can drive cars.

Look out, Toonces!

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89ttoonces.phtml

Anyway, with all the Kaz, Nasa spokesperson, and Radio Shack CEO stuff it certainly seems that poking into a bio can be a worthwhile exercise.

 

[Luke T.]

I'm going to have to agree with T'ai Chi that my excretion comment was out of line.

Chopra is a good public speaker. He would have to be to succeed.

And if you look at the article I was able to find and link on the Top Five Oustanding Speakers, you will see there are five categories. My guess is that Chopra was in the "Inspirational or Motivational" category while those he associated himself with may have been in the other four categories of Commerce & Industry, Government, Educational or Social, or Mass Media or the Arts.

Since he mentions exactly four other people that he "joined the distinguished company of", then they probably were all the 1995 recipients, each in a different category.

ETA: He is completely entitled to associate himself with these people if they all received the award for the same year.

 

[articulett]

Jesus pooped

It's a fact that the Pope poops as well.

NormalBobSmith.com has some anti religious flyers made to look like the pithy pamphlets religious folks foist upon people in an effort to plant the seed of "blind faith". They are pretty funny-- One is entitled, Jesus pooped. Another encourages people to pray for Satan to accept Christ as his personal savior thus ending the epic battle between good and evil.