So, this happened. The American College of Emergency Room Physicians invited Deepak Chopra to give the keynote address at their annual scientific meeting in October. He was planning to speak about a holistic approach to wellness. This week, without warning, the invitation was withdrawn.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/937068
It seems that ACEP members objected to his presentation in front of a "legitimate" medical organization...as if to imply that his contributions to the fields of health and wellness are illegitimate, an arrogant affront to modern, evidence-based scientific research. There were derogatory comments about his views on genetics, nonlocality, and the origin and nature of consciousness...
...subjects that fascinate me. If this assembly of scientific minds were able to cite evidence-based, peer-reviewed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies (the kind they insist upon) that demonstrate where thought originates, how memories are stored and how they arise unbidden years later, and how thought affects the physiology and wellbeing of the average human being, I would bow down in homage. But they can't. No one can. Because, no one knows. Not on a molecular, or biochemical, or electromagnetic basis. But what a field it is to contemplate!
Chopra politely acknowledged the objections to his appearance, and respectfully stepped aside. However, he did suggest that these scientists look into studies of epigenetics, the microbiome, and the field of quantum healing, not to mention Ayurveda and meditation, before dismissing them as so much hoopla.
To quote Larry Dossey, from his book "Reinventing Medicine":
"It is the responsibility of scientists
never to suppress knowledge,
no matter how awkward that knowledge is,
no matter how it may bother those in power."
~Larry Dossey~
To which I would add Einstein's take on it:
"Imagination is more important
than knowledge."
~Albert Einstein~
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