Comments on: The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/02/28/the-great-afterlife-debate-michael-shermer-v-deepak-chopra/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:58:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/02/28/the-great-afterlife-debate-michael-shermer-v-deepak-chopra/#comment-10369 grumpypilgrim Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:50:29 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1113#comment-10369 There's an old joke in the business world about how to recognize an expert: it's someone who travels more than 500 miles to work for you. Of course, the joke is that the "expert" is merely perceived as an expert because of the distance involved, not necessarily because of any special skill: distance alone creates the appearance of expertise. Chopra, in my opinion, is a good example of such an "expert." There’s an old joke in the business world about how to recognize an expert: it’s someone who travels more than 500 miles to work for you. Of course, the joke is that the “expert” is merely perceived as an expert because of the distance involved, not necessarily because of any special skill: distance alone creates the appearance of expertise.

Chopra, in my opinion, is a good example of such an “expert.”

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