tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post4245511110387548668..comments2024-03-19T00:24:23.577-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Shame on the Royal Ontario MuseumLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-49301943142883984962011-05-17T16:51:36.027-04:002011-05-17T16:51:36.027-04:00Deepak is full of crap.....he claims to have cause...Deepak is full of crap.....he claims to have caused earthquakes based on his meditation? So he kills people with his thoughts? All he cares about is getting money from anyone willing to listen, biggest crook out there. Anyone who believes in him should be locked up. Idiot celebrities think the world of him because they don't have a mind of their own (Lady Gag Gag, Oprah Winfall). Deepak is TRASH!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-56814274693425081472010-06-08T09:09:33.247-04:002010-06-08T09:09:33.247-04:00I can no longer find a listing for his talk. Did t...I can no longer find a listing for his talk. Did the ROM actually listen for a change and cancel this night of anti-science?Puffin Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04083200918437216263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-81387316385783101762010-05-26T12:43:57.719-04:002010-05-26T12:43:57.719-04:00Why anyone would actually pay to hear this quack, ...Why anyone would actually pay to hear this quack, boggles my mind. I can only hope that ticket sales will be low enough that the talk will be cancelled. Chopra's nonsense is very popular, yes, but only to the uninformed who look at the number of books he's sold, not the quality of what he preaches. He's a remnant of medieval times, preaching ayurvedic notions and tossing in cutesy quasi-scientific terms: "vibrations" and "quantum" are his favorite drop-in qualifiers. If I had a membership in the ROM, I'd cancel it. Since I now live in the USA, I can only rant from a distance. As someone who has previously spoken both at the ROM and the UofT, I am embarrassed.James Randihttp://www.randi.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-55895939003785683452010-05-26T11:30:50.821-04:002010-05-26T11:30:50.821-04:00How could the ROM do this? i.e. what were they th...How could the ROM do this? i.e. what were they thinking?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-77557076322812649312010-05-26T11:00:20.556-04:002010-05-26T11:00:20.556-04:00Re: Sunny
Please google 'concern troll' a...Re: Sunny<br /><br />Please google 'concern troll' and get back to us, thanks.<br /><br />And as scientists, aren't we supposed to let discarded hypotheses die? Half the point is figuring out what doesn't seem to be correct - this accounts for the majority of the words Mr. Chopra speaks.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288480825291738183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-26466441839297662542010-05-24T15:10:43.698-04:002010-05-24T15:10:43.698-04:00Sonny: You have answered your own question. Wherea...Sonny: You have answered your own question. Whereas you have never heard of Chopra before, we have, and know that he peddles a mish-mash of newage pseudo-medical crap, liberally sprinkled with buzzwords about quantum mechanics (a subject about which he knows nothing recognizable to physicists who actually do QM stuff). Chopra is one of those cases where familiarity breeds contempt.<br /><br />For some data, hop over to <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/" rel="nofollow">Orac's place</a> and enter "chopra" in the search box.Eamon Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262012749524758120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-26310135312993631192010-05-24T13:20:20.563-04:002010-05-24T13:20:20.563-04:00Sorry, I've never heard of this guy before and...Sorry, I've never heard of this guy before and reading his wiki article, it sounds like he's qualified to talk about this subject. I don't necessarily think that everything he might say is true, but as scientists, shouldn't we be open to discussion about any subject? If you are the rational objectors to religion, etc that you seem to be, shouldn't you be open to listening to what he has to say and then making your arguments afterward? I'm just a bit confused about why people seem to be upset about this.Sunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11530655730619052378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-61888493214282866452010-05-22T05:26:19.919-04:002010-05-22T05:26:19.919-04:00What is this travesty? Disinformation is being han...What is this travesty? Disinformation is being handed a microphone, in a royal museum of all places!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16516498833705545032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-75300222135291286592010-05-20T17:43:02.731-04:002010-05-20T17:43:02.731-04:00I just canceled my ROM membership to protest the &...I just canceled my ROM membership to protest the "Evening with Deepak".<br /><br />I also find it reprehensible of the ROM to give this crackpot a ROM sponsored platform to add respectability to his brand of woo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-73661864998515886612010-05-18T10:28:38.270-04:002010-05-18T10:28:38.270-04:00I *was* going to renew my ROM membership. Great p...I *was* going to renew my ROM membership. Great place to go and sketch. However...Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-41525463453047423682010-05-14T16:45:51.672-04:002010-05-14T16:45:51.672-04:00Aside from all the other stupid dripping from this...Aside from all the other stupid dripping from this thing, I wann know: what the hell does ChopraWoo have to do with the terra cotta army? Is this some hook he's using on which to hang his crap?Eamon Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262012749524758120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-42602503741485853782010-05-14T07:22:32.823-04:002010-05-14T07:22:32.823-04:00My feelings about this are best expressed by a quo...My feelings about this are best expressed by a quote from the immortal Bill the Cat: <br /><br />"Ack!"Augrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534417456240169205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-70320926730040744422010-05-13T21:41:37.611-04:002010-05-13T21:41:37.611-04:00To amend my previous comment, the fault for inviti...To amend my previous comment, the fault for inviting Mr. Chopra to speak lies with the ROM, not UofT.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02590604089043425452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-51035423504969737122010-05-13T21:40:25.235-04:002010-05-13T21:40:25.235-04:00UofT routinely rents out large venues like Con Hal...UofT routinely rents out large venues like Con Hall for lots of talks. It isn't their purview to censor things. On a related note, the ROM is somewhat affiliated with UofT, as it was once administered by UofT. That might explain why someone as bizarre as Mr. Chopra is talking at Con Hall. We usually get politicians, real scholars, that sort of thing.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02590604089043425452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-87104907933333612532010-05-13T16:45:40.834-04:002010-05-13T16:45:40.834-04:00Also, shame on the University of Toronto! Why on e...Also, shame on the University of Toronto! Why on earth we are allowing this charlatan to speak in Con Hall is beyond me.profpeethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05641718040409389385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-26166293995976960882010-05-13T16:44:01.275-04:002010-05-13T16:44:01.275-04:00Chopra has burnt his bridges with mainstream Hindu...Chopra has burnt his bridges with mainstream Hindus in a debate over yoga. So while you dump on him, spare him the monikker of "Hindu this, Hindu that" If you want to criticise Hindus and Hinduism find some other ridicululous practitioner pleeeease!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-35560811019890708142010-05-13T14:11:10.423-04:002010-05-13T14:11:10.423-04:00Jeez, that's expensive for that quack.
I hear...Jeez, that's expensive for that quack.<br /><br />I heard him speak at Caltech in the duel with Michael Shermer and Sam Harris. It was embarrassing to hear him waffle about GOD (it's an acronym: Generation, Organization, and Delivery), and especially about the moon: "In the absence of a conscious entity, the moon remains a radically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup."Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.com