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onager

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12. DeeplyPacked REALLY hated this guy...

Thu Jun 4, 2015, 03:23 PM

Jun 2015

The (unfortuanately) late Victor Stenger. A working quantum physicist who also taught philosophy at the university level.

Stenger was one of the first to write about Chopra's quantum con job, and he had exactly the combination of skills to expose Quantum Dumbfuckery for the nonsense it was.

Like Richard Feynmann and Carl Sagan, Stenger also had the rare ability to translate the weirdness of quantum physics into everyday language.

The link below is to Stenger's classic 1997 takedown of Chopra, "Quantum Quackery." I had the great pleasure to see Stenger deliver this as a lecture at the Skeptics Society. In front of a live audience Stenger was really great. For one thing, he could get away with a lot more humor and sarcasm, where he plays it straight in the article:

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/quantum_quackery/

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Chopra nil desperandum Jun 2015 #1

I certainly don't understand the appeal either. trotsky Jun 2015 #2

Now that is funny!! nil desperandum Jun 2015 #4

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First thing I thought of when I saw this. SusanCalvin Jun 2015 #15

The "nones" Promethean Jun 2015 #3

Spot on nil desperandum Jun 2015 #5

Yup, that was how things played out for me too. trotsky Jun 2015 #8

He starts out ok. Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #14

I have yet to see anyone base their hatred of LGBTQers or different races or women on it. AlbertCat Jun 2015 #6

Worth watching the video where DAWSKINNS!!1 interviews Chopra about "Quantum" mr blur Jun 2015 #7

Our buddy Deep. trotsky Jun 2015 #9

1 LOL Yorktown Jun 2015 #16

Positivity is the quanta of happiness. Act_of_Reparation Jun 2015 #11

DeeplyPacked REALLY hated this guy... onager Jun 2015 #12

I firmly believe edhopper Jun 2015 #13

That's because you're out of touch with your inner quantum Yorktown Jun 2015 #17

Maybe... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #18

And you didn't get arrested for indecent exposure? Yorktown Jun 2015 #19

Well, I didn't do it in public awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #20

God gave you guidance Yorktown Jun 2015 #21