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Calling someone out as a charlatan is worth saying.



If it's not substantiated, then it's not.


Often things are so obvious they do not require substantiation (see: the emperors new clothes).

Calling them out is enough.


It's not obvious to me from the provided quote that he's a charlatan. I do think he is a charlatan, but not everyone who uses new-age-sounding language is necessarily a charlatan.

It's possible to put many of the scientifically validated insights of modern psychotherapy into language that would make a lot of empirically-minded people sneer. In fact there are people who have done exactly this in the past.




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