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'''Deepak Chopra''', popularly referred to as "Sixpack Chopra", is the most visible public proponent of "mind-body" woo and [[alternative medicine]]. He is also a writer of [[New Age]]/[[self help]] spiritual books of [[woo]], that basically say things like "Look around you at the beauty of the Earth....Wooooo!", and "Look into the beauty of yourself....Wooooo!". Chopra sells something called [[ayurvedic medicine]], which is apparently traditional [[India]]n medicine filtered through the [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]] and mixed with bad physics in order to treat dangerously low levels of money in Chopra's wallet.  
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'''Deepak Chopra''', popularly referred to as "Sixpack Chopra", is the most visible public proponent of "mind-body" woo and [[alternative medicine]]. He is also a writer of [[New Age]]/[[self help]] spiritual books of [[woo]], that basically say things like "Look around you at the beauty of the Earth....Wooooo!", and "Look into the beauty of yourself....Wooooo!". Chopra sells something called [[ayurvedic medicine]], which is apparently traditional [[India]]n medicine filtered through the [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]] and mixed with bad physics in order to treat the dangerously low levels of money in Chopra's wallet.  
  
 
Chopra is a favored contributor at [[the Huffington Post]], and was one of Michael Jackson's sketchy friends.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra HuffPo apparently takes him seriously.]</ref>
 
Chopra is a favored contributor at [[the Huffington Post]], and was one of Michael Jackson's sketchy friends.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra HuffPo apparently takes him seriously.]</ref>

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Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra, popularly referred to as "Sixpack Chopra", is the most visible public proponent of "mind-body" woo and alternative medicine. He is also a writer of New Age/self help spiritual books of woo, that basically say things like "Look around you at the beauty of the Earth....Wooooo!", and "Look into the beauty of yourself....Wooooo!". Chopra sells something called ayurvedic medicine, which is apparently traditional Indian medicine filtered through the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and mixed with bad physics in order to treat the dangerously low levels of money in Chopra's wallet.

Chopra is a favored contributor at the Huffington Post, and was one of Michael Jackson's sketchy friends.[1]

Almost anything can be cured if you rub enough woo on it, especially if you likes you some quantum gobbledygook. If woo alone won't do the trick, it means you've forgotten to put on the Yanni CD.

Chopra is not to be confused with the CEO of OSI Systems, a manufacturer of X-ray airport screening devices.[2]

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Early life and medical career

Born in New Delhi in 1946 to a respected cardiologist, Chopra initially had much potential in the field of medicine. After becoming an endocrinologist, he taught at Boston and Tufts University and became Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center. Then, in 1981, he met an Ayurvedic practitioner and entered the world of mind-body alternative medicine.

Woo-peddling

Deepak Chopra comes from a long line of pseudo-Hindu spiritualists making money off of gullible Americans, but he is one of the first to successfully merge Eastern ayurvadic woo with Western quantum woo and sell it to a mainstream American audience. Through his whopping 57 self-help books, countless publications in medical-ish journals, and eloquent public speeches, Chopra skillfully uses a vast vocabulary of meaningless quantum gobbledygook to confuse victims into buying another book.[3]

We are each a localized field of energy and information with cybernetic feedback loops interacting within a nonlocal field...

Somehow, his hundreds of thousands[4] of supporters swallow it whole.

A key concept in Chopra's woo is the Dosha, or human quantum-body essence, which he can apparently assess with ease by checking a patient's pulse. The balance between the three Doshas in each patient is then corrected through by a diet of alternating sweet and spicy foods[5] as well as no doubt expensive treatments available exclusively from Chopra himself.

It should be noted that Dosha is not to be confused with an Indian flatbread often served with vegetable stew and chutney, which is quite delicious and more substantial than Chopra's writings.

Religion

Though Chopra's beliefs are fundamentally based on New Age and Hindu syncretism, he is not afraid to embrace other religions, professing his belief in not one but three iterations of Jesus Christ.

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. HuffPo apparently takes him seriously.
  2. Indian hand behind body scan row in US, The Economic Times (The India Times), 26 November 2010
  3. Deepak Chopra, The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. As of early February 2011, his Twitter account has almost 400 000 "followers".
  5. Ayurvedic medicine, The Skeptic's Dictionary
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