{"id":519685,"date":"2010-04-07T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13653"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:00:34","slug":"deepak-impact-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519685","title":{"rendered":"Deepak impact | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deepak Chopra is a peddler of nonsense, woo, and alt-med garbage. I’m not a fan — duh<\/a> — so I missed his tweet<\/a> which is causing a minor stir on the intertoobz:<\/p>\n

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Had a powerful meditation just now – caused an earthquake in Southern California.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reading his tweets is like trying to read a book whirling around in a blender, but it does appear that he thinks he caused the earthquake in Baja<\/a> the other day.<\/p>\n

However, in a later tweet he said<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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Some people were upset at my remarks re earthquake. Sorry about that. I was actually meditating when it happenned [sic] and thougt [sic]” Whoaaa!”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So either he was joking, and haha if he was, or he was serious. So if it’s the latter, y’know what I’d love to see? A class action suit against him.<\/em> That’s right, the people of Mexico and southern California should sue Chopra because he caused a major earthquake! If you win, he goes bankrupt and we’ll never hear his quantum enmangled word salad again. And if you lose, it’s because he’s a charlatan. <\/p>\n

I don’t see a downside here, frankly.<\/p>\n


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Deepak Chopra is a peddler of nonsense, woo, and alt-med garbage. I’m not a fan — duh — so I missed his tweet which is causing a minor stir on the intertoobz: Had a powerful meditation just now – caused an earthquake in Southern California. Reading his tweets is like trying to read a book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}