Can you find the ironic critical thinking error on this wellness magazine cover?

Baloney · 22nd June 2012, 06:38 PM

I was in the local organic food co-op today and saw this woo-ish wellness magazine with Deepak Chopra on the cover. Glancing at the cover, I noticed an ironic failure in critical thinking involving the cover image and one of the coverlines.

Oh, Deepak.

Resume · 22nd June 2012, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Baloney

I was in the local organic food co-op today and saw this woo-ish wellness magazine with Deepak Chopra on the cover. Glancing at the cover, I noticed an ironic failure in critical thinking involving the cover image and one of the coverlines.

http://www.totalmonkey.com/images/logicfail.png

Oh, Deepak.

Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging.

Garrette · 22nd June 2012, 06:48 PM

Perfect health with glasses?

SezMe · 22nd June 2012, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Resume

Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging.

That's what caught my eye. Or maybe he uses the inverse of Grecian Formula?

xtifr · 22nd June 2012, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Resume

Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging.

Are you kidding? You should have seen how he looked 30 years ago, when he turned 90!

Baloney · 22nd June 2012, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Resume

Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging.

Yes, indeed.

Baloney · 22nd June 2012, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Garrette

Perfect health with glasses?

Ha! I didn't think of that, but yes there too! Unless Deepak's a hipster, and they're just glass not lenses.

Gord_in_Toronto · 23rd June 2012, 02:42 PM

I have tried in the past to find what he has to say about using alltquack to preserve one's eyesight. The best I could find was a blurb he wrote for a friend's book on preserving eyesight though eye exercises. Maybe the exercises are too difficult.

But he accompanied on the cover by Joseph_Mercola^WP who is at least his equivalent in quackdom.

To get them both together and force them to explain their medical worldviews would be quite interesting as they believe in contradictory things.

22nd June 2012, 06:38 PM	#1
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Resume Philosopher Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 8,039	Originally Posted by Baloney I was in the local organic food co-op today and saw this woo-ish wellness magazine with Deepak Chopra on the cover. Glancing at the cover, I noticed an ironic failure in critical thinking involving the cover image and one of the coverlines. http://www.totalmonkey.com/images/logicfail.png Oh, Deepak. Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging.
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xtifr Muse Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Sol III Posts: 563	Originally Posted by Resume Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging. Are you kidding? You should have seen how he looked 30 years ago, when he turned 90!
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Baloney Muse Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: America! (F, yeah!) Posts: 666	Originally Posted by Resume Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging. Yes, indeed.
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SezMe post-pre-born Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 16,372	Originally Posted by Resume Well, for one, he doesn't look like he's having much success with reversing aging. That's what caught my eye. Or maybe he uses the inverse of Grecian Formula?

22nd June 2012, 09:05 PM	#7
Baloney Muse Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: America! (F, yeah!) Posts: 666	Originally Posted by Garrette Perfect health with glasses? Ha! I didn't think of that, but yes there too! Unless Deepak's a hipster, and they're just glass not lenses.
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23rd June 2012, 02:42 PM	#8
Gord_in_Toronto Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 13,418	I have tried in the past to find what he has to say about using alltquack to preserve one's eyesight. The best I could find was a blurb he wrote for a friend's book on preserving eyesight though eye exercises. Maybe the exercises are too difficult. But he accompanied on the cover by Joseph_Mercola^WP who is at least his equivalent in quackdom. To get them both together and force them to explain their medical worldviews would be quite interesting as they believe in contradictory things.
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