Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I made it a point to ask @DeepakChopra if @KristinMeekhof had told him the reason that I had given in an email on the day of the talk last year. 6/https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/981590526720913408 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Deepak Chopra
At this point, Dr. Chopra wisely backtracked and wished me well. He did not actually apologize. 7/https://twitter.com/DeepakChopra/status/981590746074501120 …
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I then remembered that this is not the first time Dr. Chopra has behaved this way. I remembered what happened to Tim Caulfield. 8/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/deepak-chopra-timothy-caulfield-twitter-1.3953538 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Deepak Chopra
Yes, ultimately Dr. Chopra apologized, and that is to his credit. Even so, he said some pretty nasty stuff, at one point implying that Caulfield was drunk. 9/https://twitter.com/DeepakChopra/status/824489462247948292 …
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Elsewhere in the exchange, Dr. Chopra accused Caulfield of being a liar and attention seeker. 10/
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This isn't even the first time Dr. Chopra has lashed out over criticism. He did a video after Tim Caulfield and I had both written critical posts about his appearance. 11/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/11/07/deepak-chopra-likes-me/ …
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I also note that, not once, ever, has Dr,.Chopra ever deigned to contact me personally. His only contact with me has been through Tweets attacking me and that video in the Tweet above. The only direct contact with anyone in his organization I've had is with
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It's almost as though Dr. Chopra doesn't view me as his equal and therefore leaves all the "dirty work" of contacting me to his underling. I was polite about it a year ago, perhaps overly so, but it rankles, particularly now that
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It's almost as though Dr. Chopra only wants me to show up as a foil for a "debate" on friendly ground, where the audience came to see him and not me.
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If Dr. Chopra is serious about wanting a dialogue, let him start it in private. If the private dialogue ends up fostering trust, only then would I consider taking it public. Given Dr. Chopra's past behavior, I have a hard time trusting him enough just to say yes on Twitter. 15/
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Finally, if @DeepakChopra, @KristinMeekhof, or anyone working for Dr. Chopra publicly uses this Tweetstorm to try to portray me as "afraid" of debate, my answer will go from "let's start talking privately and see where things go" to a hard "no." 16/
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This is the last time I will tag
@DeepakChopra or@KristinMeekhof in any Tweets about this. Namaste. 17/174 replies 2 retweets 16 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Don’t do it like debating with a@professional snake oil@salesman
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