Guarding the Wall: tunnels, bridges and tendrils

[Monte Davis]

No, Deepak, it's because you personally - once a fine endocrinologist - have
become as much a glib, obscurantist  huckster as any TV  miracle healer. 

 

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"...On the other side of the wall are lethal enemies and malefic magic. For
centuries, no one has seen the zombie-like White Walkers who live on the
other side of the wall, nor the dragons that once ravaged Westeros

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Even so, after magic and zombies fell into disbelief, a hereditary band of
guardians swore an oath to keep watch at the wall, generation after
generation. TED has put itself in rather the same position. What the
militant atheists and self-described skeptics hate is a certain brand of
magical thinking that endangers science. In particular, there is the bugaboo
of "non-local consciousness," which causes the hair on the back of their
necks to stand on end. A layman would be forgiven for not grasping why such
an innocent-sounding phrase could spell danger to "good science."

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/dear-ted-is-it-bad-scienc_b_3104
049.html

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