Dear Playboy
May, 2011
Deepak Chopra says it angers him that I and other skeptics call him Dr. Woo and accuse him of practicing "woo woo." But the first time I heard this phrase used in association with Chopra was from Deepak himself. Woo woo is the practice of stringing together scientific-sounding but meaningless words, such as "acausal nonlocal superposition of possibilities" and "quantum consciousness." Here's a gem of Deepakese from a debate we had on Larry King Live about "ne...