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Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a pseudoscientific approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition…
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science · American alternative medicine advocate (born 1946) · motivational speaker · writer · physician · internist · Ayurveda practitioner · documentary participant · wellness guru · non-fiction writer · endocrinologist · also Deepak Chopra, Chopra
Born 22 October 1946 · Q318506
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2026· 2 entries
“[W]hen all you do is prescribe medication, you start to feel like a legalized drug pusher. That doesn”
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2025· 1 entry
THIP Media rated the claim “Deepak Chopra is promoting a miracle weight loss drink and recommending salt elimination for rapid weight loss” False.
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2024· 1 entry
THIP Media rated the claim “Dr. Deepak Chopra is against standard therapies for joint health” False.
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2023· 1 entry
Where he served as chief scientific adviser
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,545 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Published “Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,244 times.
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As of 2019, Chopra lives in a "health-centric" condominium in Manhattan.
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2016· 1 entry
Chopra was promoted from voluntary assistant clinical professor to voluntary full clinical professor at the University of California, San Diego in their Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
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2015· 1 entry
Chopra partnered with businessman Paul Tudor Jones II to found JUST Capital, a non-profit firm which ranks companies in terms of just business practices in an effort to promote economic justice
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2014· 1 entry
Chopra founded ISHAR (Integrative Studies Historical Archive and Repository)
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2013· 2 entries
The New York Times stated that Deepak Chopra is "the controversial New Age guru and booster of alternative medicine"
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Chopra published an article on what he saw as "skepticism" at work in Wikipedia, arguing that a "stubborn band of militant skeptics" were editing articles to prevent what he believes would be a fair representation of the
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Canada India Foundation ("CIF") Chanchlani Global Indian Award (2012).
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Reviewing War of the Worldviews – a book co-authored by Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow – physics professor Mark Alford says that the work is set out as a debate between the two authors, "[covering] all the big questions: co
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Chopra joined the board of advisors for tech startup State
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2010· 1 entry
Shermer said that Chopra is "the very definition of what we mean by pseudoscience"
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2009· 3 entries
Chopra founded the Chopra Foundation, a tax-exempt 501(c) organization that raises funds to promote and research alternative health
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After being administered prescription drugs, Chopra said he hoped it would be a call to action against the "cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities"
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“cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities”
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2007· 1 entry
By Richard Dawkins, Chopra said that he used the term quantum as a metaphor when discussing healing and that it had little to do with quantum theory in physics
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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Launched Virgin Comics with his son Gotham Chopra and entrepreneur Richard Branson
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2005· 2 entries
Chopra was appointed as a senior scientist at The Gallup Organization
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That Chopra was "hardly a man now, more a lucrative new age brand – the David Beckham of personal/spiritual growth"
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2004· 1 entry
Received his California medical license, and as of 2014 was affiliated with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California
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2001· 2 entries
“There is a realm of reality that goes beyond the physical where in fact we can influence each other from a distance.”
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ABC News aired a show segment on the topic of distance healing and prayer
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2000· 1 entry
That his AIDS patients were combining mainstream medicine with activities based on Ayurveda, including taking herbs, meditation, and yoga
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1999· 1 entry
Time magazine included Chopra on its list of the 20th century's heroes and icons
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1998· 2 entries
Chopra was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physics for "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness"
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For "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness"
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1996· 2 entries
Cofounded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing
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And Chopra left to set up the Chopra Center for Wellbeing with neurologist David Simon, which was located at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California
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1995· 1 entry
Chopra was not licensed to practice medicine in California where he had a clinic
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1993· 1 entry
Chopra gained a following after he was interviewed about his books on The Oprah Winfrey Show
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1989· 1 entry
The Maharishi awarded him the title "Dhanvantari of Heaven and Earth" (Dhanvantari was the Hindu physician to the gods)
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1985· 2 entries
With the leader of the TM movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who asked him to establish an Ayurvedic health center
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Met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and became involved in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement
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1981· 1 entry
Met the Ayurvedic physician Brihaspati Dev Triguna, head of the Indian Council for Ayurvedic Medicine, whose advice prompted him to begin investigating Ayurvedic practices
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1980· 1 entry
Became chief of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH)
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1973· 1 entry
Becoming board certified in internal medicine, specializing in endocrinology
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1970· 2 entries
Before emigrating, with his wife, to the United States that same year
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To the United States, where he completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in endocrinology
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-10-22.
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