Has What the bleep do we know? sparked controversy?

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The forum discussion centers on the metaphysical movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and its controversial portrayal of quantum physics. Participants express skepticism about the film, labeling it as "New Age propaganda" that misrepresents scientific concepts. The discussion references critiques found on the website Intuitor, which provides a detailed debunking of the film's claims. Additionally, users highlight the existence of numerous threads on the Physics Forums that have previously addressed the film's inaccuracies.

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Has anyone seen the metaphysical movie "What the bleep do we know?" I saw it and I have mixed feelings about it.
 
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Anyone who knows anything about quantum physics will tell you this movie is Bullsh*t.

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/" wrote a little something about it, calling it “A New Age propaganda piece which purports to teach about quantum mechanics”

It can be found at the bottom of their webpage or http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/bleep.html"

Hopefully others will link to some more other good website that debunk this cr@p!
 
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If you had searched before starting the thread, you would have found at least a dozen threads already debunking the garbage in this movie.
 
Evo said:
If you had searched before starting the thread, you would have found at least a dozen threads already debunking the garbage in this movie.

You seem a little high strung. In any event, I don't use the internet much so I only drop in here from time to time so I failed to see the "dozens" of post you claim were made on the subject.

Though I think the movie had some highlights I wasn't too impressed with it either.
 

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