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Type of alternative medicine
Quantum healing
is a
pseudoscientific
mixture of ideas which purportedly draws from
quantum mechanics
,
psychology
,
philosophy
, and
neurophysiology
. Advocates of quantum healing assert that
quantum
phenomena govern health and wellbeing. There are different versions, which allude to various quantum ideas including
wave particle duality
and
virtual particles
, and more generally to "
energy
" and to
vibrations
.
[1]
Quantum healing is a form of
alternative medicine
.
Deepak Chopra
coined the term "quantum healing" when he published the first edition of his book with that title in 1989.
[2]
[3]
His discussions of quantum healing have been characterised as
technobabble
- "incoherent babbling strewn with scientific terms"
[4]
which drives those who actually understand physics "crazy"
[5]
and as "redefining Wrong".
[6]
Quantum healing has a number of vocal followers, but the scientific community widely regards it as nonsensical.
[7]
The main criticism revolves around its systematic misinterpretation of modern
physics
,
[8]
especially of the fact that
macroscopic
objects (such as the human body or individual cells) are much too large to exhibit inherently quantum properties like
interference
and
wave function collapse
.
Physicist and science communicator
Brian Cox
argues that misuse of the word "quantum", such as its use in the phrase
quantum healing
, has a negative effect on
society
as it undermines genuine science and discourages people from engaging with conventional medicine. He states that "for some scientists, the unfortunate distortion and misappropriation of scientific ideas that often accompanies their integration into popular culture is an unacceptable price to pay."
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See also
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References
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Alexander Dunlop.
"Quantum Healing: Transforming Who You Are - Spiritual Life Coaching"
. Spiritualnutrition.org. Archived from
the original
on 2012-12-29
. Retrieved
2012-12-15
.
- ^
Baer, Hans A. (2003). "The Work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra-Two Holistic Health/New Age Gurus: A Critique of the Holistic Health/New Age Movements".
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
.
17
(2): 233?50.
doi
:
10.1525/maq.2003.17.2.233
.
PMID
12846118
.
- ^
Chopra, Deepak (1989).
Quantum Healing
. New York, NY: Bantam books.
- ^
Strauss, Valerie (2015-05-15).
"Scientist: Why Deepak Chopra is driving me crazy"
.
Washington Post
.
ISSN
0190-8286
. Retrieved
2018-05-19
.
- ^
Burkeman, Oliver (2012-11-23).
"This column will change your life: pseudoscience"
. Retrieved
2018-05-19
.
[Chopra]'s the guy behind Ask The Kabala and 'quantum healing', which involves 'healing the bodymind from a quantum level' by a 'shift in the fields of energy information', and which drives crazy people who actually understand physics; his critics accuse him of selling false hope to the sick.
- ^
Plait, Phil (2009-12-01).
"Deepak Chopra: redefining "wrong"
"
.
Slate
.
ISSN
1091-2339
. Retrieved
2018-05-19
.
- ^
Francis, Matthew R. (2014-05-29).
"Quantum and Consciousness Often Mean Nonsense"
.
Slate
.
ISSN
1091-2339
. Retrieved
2018-09-21
.
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a
b
Cox, Brian (2012-02-20).
"Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood - Speakeasy - WSJ"
. Blogs.wsj.com
. Retrieved
2012-12-15
.
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