"Dr. Deepak K. Chopra (born 1947), sometimes stylized as Deepthroat Chakra, is a highly visible peddler of mind-body woo, quantum woo, and alternative medicine. He is a prolific writer of terrible self-help garbage and has made far too many youtube videos and public speaking appearances. He is a pro at writing New Age self-help spiritual books that say generic pleasant things that anyone could appreciate in almost any setting like "look around you[note 1] at the beauty of the Earth" as well as his genius breakthroughs in human understanding: "to think is to practice brain chemistry." Chopra makes a ton of cash writing completely unprofound comments peppered with unscientific nonsense, mostly through Ayurvedic medicine, which is traditional Indian medicine filtered through the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi all mashed into his awful understanding of "physics". Chopra brilliantly found a way to formulate tons of incomprehensible babble, write dozens of fluff books, recite it on Oprah and cash-in big time. He is now one of America's most beloved hoodwinkers of all time. He is best known among rationalists for inspiring the Chopra woo generator where a website lists randomly generated Chopra like content that literally cannot be intelligently distinguished from Chropra's "original" content. Sam Harris put it best when he asked him why on Earth he would purport to speak as a physicist when it is not what he studied and worse as he clearly knows nothing about it." (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra)
There are many media pseudoscience personalities who can qualify as major quacks. Deepak Chopra is my leading candidate for the dishonor.
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