Deepak Chopra attacks Skepticism

[Eilonnwy]

Pippy, you are creating a strawman, much as Deepak did. Skepticism is about reserving judgment until proper evidence presents itself. It also requires that you look at all the evidence. It's not waving a sign saying "I doubt it!" for the sake of just disagreeing with people. Skeptics are the first and most willing to change their mind when the evidence presents itself.

Deepak makes a living off of deceiving people, whether intentional or not. The act of demanding evidence for your claims is a bane to the shit Deepak promotes.

He basically promotes pseudoscience by throwing around the word quantum and any other fancy scientific sounding word that the average lay person doesn't understand, so they buy his spiel.

I personally don't think you can be a true skeptic if you believe in god, only because the act of believing on faith is completely in opposition to what a skeptic is. If you're a true skeptic then you must apply it to all aspects of life. Granted, many skeptics would disagree with me, that's an ongoing debate within the skeptic community itself. Many skeptics think religion should be left alone unless it makes specific claims on science (Like healing by prayer). I disagree, but that's another argument entirely.

I don't think you're a skeptic Pippy, not specifically because you believe in God, but during the 9/11 debate you simply ignored the evidence put before you, thinking that by ignoring good evidence you are embracing skepticism. If someone is "skeptical" about the world being round, they're not being appropriately skeptical, they are ignoring good evidence. Much like 9/11 truthers do. Once a claim has met its burden of proof, if you deny it, then you must meet that burden of proof. That's why skeptics mock and take a hard stance against 9/11 deniers, Global warming deniers, holocaust deniers, flat earthers, evolution deniers, etc...