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Richard Dawkins lets Deepak Chopra take down himself

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
September 12, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Sun, 09/12/2010 - 23:00
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Richard Dawkins has an irrational hatred of religion and zealotry is always creepy but when he remains rational, like in this talk with Deepak Chopra about Chopra's claims that quantum theory can heal people, there is no one better.

"It's a metaphor," Chopra says, before backtracking and speaking some mumbo jumbo about the observer effect and that physicists say it's possible to do ... well, I don't know what it will do.  And neither does he.


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