Sharp HealthCare changed ownership in 1996 and Chopra left to set up the Chopra Center for Wellbeing with neurologist David Simon, now located at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. Chopra's treatments generally elicit nothing but a placebo response, and have drawn criticism that the unwarranted claims made for them may raise 'false hope' and lure sick people away from legitimate medical treatments. Evolutionary biologistRichard Dawkins has said that Chopra uses 'quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus'. This has led physicists to object to his use of the term quantum in reference to medical conditions and the human body. Chopra argues that what he calls 'quantum healing' cures any manner of ailments, including cancer, through effects that he claims are literally based on the same principles as quantum mechanics. Philosopher Robert Carroll states Chopra attempts to integrate Ayurveda with quantum mechanics to justify his teachings. This criticism has been described as ranging 'from dismissive damning'. The ideas Chopra promotes have been regularly criticized by medical and scientific professionals as pseudoscience.
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