The Worst Of The Quacks

As most who follow me know, I am very hard on promoters of alternatives to medicine (quacks). A significant problem with the issue is several of them are prominent in the media. Click on the link below for the *6 worst examples of such, according to one source:

6) Deepak Chopra

5) Dr. Oz

4) Michael Roizen

3) Joseph Mercola

2) Andrew Wakefield

1) Jenny McCarthy

* I would add JFK Jr and ALL Chiropractors to this list!

5 Celebrity Doctors (plus, the worst, who is not a doctor!) Who Are Lying To Us

Oprah Winfrey: The Queen Of Pseudoscience Promotion

Ponder that early on in the 2020 Presidential Election process, Oprah Winfrey was mentioned as a possible candidate. A case can be made that she is a major reason why magical thinking is so prevalent in the USA. Click on the link below for details:

Did Oprah Winfrey Promote Pseudoscience?

The King Of Woo?

"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.

Quacks Manipulating Audiences

One of several short videos exposing the way purveyors of pseudoscience operate:

4 Ways Quacks Manipulate Their Audiences

Dr. Gary Null

Ever hear of him?  Me neither.  Apparently, he is in the same camp as Dr. Oz, Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil.

One Of The Four Horsemen of The Alternative Doesn't Like Us, And More Media Links

Deepak Chopra And Physics

"One of the early trivializers of fundamental physics is Deepak Chopra, whose indiscriminate use of words such as quantum, energy, field, and non-locality renders them as frivolous as a burp after a course of tandoori chicken."

Pull up a chair, get your popcorn and the beverage of your choice:

Deepak Chopra’s professionalism in the writing of Quantum Healing is of such a low quality that it borders on charlatanism.

Positive Thinking, Self-Help Programs And Their Results

Anyone who has investigated objectively the so-called Self-Help movement knows it is mostly hat without the cattle:

Positive fantasies about the future linked to increased symptoms of depression

Google Search: Self-Help Debunked

Google Search: Eckhart Tolle Debunked

Google Search: Deepak Chopra Debunked