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The film proved enormously popular, playing to full houses across the United States and winning several independent film awards before being picked up by a major distributor<ref>Tom Huston, "[http://www.wie.org/j27/what-the-bleep.asp?page=1 Taking the Quantum Leap... Too Far?]", ''What is Enlightenment? Magazine'', Retrieved January 25, 2008</ref> eventually grossing over $10 million.<ref name="einstein">http://www.einsteinyear.org/bleep/
 
The film proved enormously popular, playing to full houses across the United States and winning several independent film awards before being picked up by a major distributor<ref>Tom Huston, "[http://www.wie.org/j27/what-the-bleep.asp?page=1 Taking the Quantum Leap... Too Far?]", ''What is Enlightenment? Magazine'', Retrieved January 25, 2008</ref> eventually grossing over $10 million.<ref name="einstein">http://www.einsteinyear.org/bleep/
  einstein year, What the Bleep do we Know? Retrieved December 28, 2007</ref>It was praised by [[Madonna (entertainer) | Madonna]] as "incredibly thought-provoking and inspiring," and won widespread support and acclaim in the [[New Age]] community. However, it has been criticised as fraudulent for presenting speculation and unsupported opinion as if it were established science, mixing mainstream scientific views with mysticism, and exploiting people's fascination with and belief in science while at the same distorting and falsifying its claims. One of the experts interviewed in the film complained that his interview had been edited in such a way as to completely suppress (and indeed to reverse) his actual views. Sceptics such as [http://www.randi.org/ James Randi] described the film as "[a] rampant example of abuse by charlatans and cults."<ref> The Committee for Sceptical Inquiry dismissed it as "a hodgepodge of all kinds of crackpot nonsense" A BBC reviewer described it as "a documentary aimed at the totally gullible." <ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/04/14/what_the_bleep_do_we_know_2005_review.shtml Review] at BBC Movies</ref>
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  einstein year, What the Bleep do we Know? Retrieved December 28, 2007</ref>It was praised by [[Madonna (entertainer) | Madonna]] as "incredibly thought-provoking and inspiring," and won widespread support and acclaim in the [[New Age]] community. However, it has been criticised as fraudulent for presenting speculation and unsupported opinion as if it were established science, mixing mainstream scientific views with mysticism, and exploiting people's fascination with and belief in science while at the same distorting and falsifying its claims. One of the experts interviewed in the film complained that his interview had been edited in such a way as to completely suppress (and indeed to reverse) his actual views. Sceptics such as [http://www.randi.org/ James Randi] described the film as "[a] rampant example of abuse by charlatans and cults." The Committee for Sceptical Inquiry dismissed it as "a hodgepodge of all kinds of crackpot nonsense". A BBC reviewer described it as "a documentary aimed at the totally gullible." <ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/04/14/what_the_bleep_do_we_know_2005_review.shtml Review] at BBC Movies</ref>
    
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