I admire those, like Miranda Celeste Hale, who have the stamina to deal with the nonsense of people like Deepak Chopra.

I don't.  The reason is that I find it hard to know where to start, because it is clear that there is something amiss.  The world people like Chopra live in seems not quite connected to reality, and so I find it hard to mentally focus on their ideas.  How disconnected from reality are they?  Again, that is hard to tell.

What are the symptoms of this disconnection?  Let's have a look at a single sentence from Chopra's latest article:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/intentchopra/2009/11/the-perils-of-skepticism.html

"No skeptic, to my knowledge, ever made a major scientific discovery or advanced the welfare of others."

This sentence sort of hangs in the air.  It is like some shocking work of art, around which people stand, jaws dropped, squinting and twisting their heads in a futile attempt to get a perspective on the object that isn't quite as repulsive as it seems at first sight.

There must be something wrong somewhere.  Some mistake, surely?  Because, Chopra has, in a single sentence, dismissed the Enlightenment; centuries of science, medicine, philosophy, politics..

I can only come up with the following alternatives:

1. Chopra has some deep misunderstanding of the words 'skeptic', 'knowledge', 'scientific', 'discovery', 'advance' and 'welfare'.
2. Chopra comes from some parallel reality in which the Enlightenment did not happen and discoveries appeared out of thin air, by magic.

Some might come up with a third option:  that he is deliberately spouting nonsense.  But surely that can't be the case.

This illustrates the problem I have with trying to deal with the writings of people like Chopra.  Almost every sentence is like a vast cliff of mind-mangling absurdity on the way up an interminable mountain of nonsense.

I am glad that people like Hale have the energy and stamina to scale that mountain.