Popular? Giving Advice? Probably A Scumbag

"In 1963 [Timothy] Leary and Mr. [Richard 'Ram Dass'] Alpert were kicked out of Harvard for their exploits, which included giving drugs to undergraduates. One of the men behind their expulsion was none other than Andrew Weil, still an undergraduate. Jealous at not being fully admitted into their world or, Mr. Lattin suggests, being given the best drugs, Mr. Weil helped engineer an exposé of Leary and Mr. Alpert in The Harvard Crimson. He took the pair down, Mr. Lattin writes, 'with the zeal of a jilted lover. The older men never fully forgave him."

-- Dwight Garner, suggesting America's weirdest NewAge witchdoctor started his career as a classic snitch and addict - no surprise there - because, ultimately, Andrew Weil has (along with the '60's "scene" that spawned him) never revealed anything to me that said he cared one iota about anyone else, or anything about right or wrong, and the same goes for The New York Times.