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...