Novak Djokovic’s stand-off with Australia marks just the latest occasion on which the outspoken tennis star’s eccentric views have clashed with accepted scientific thinking.In May 2020, the Serbian world tennis No 1 – who is in Melbourne awaiting a decision on whether he will be deported – claimed, during an Instagram live interview with self-styled wellness guru Chervin Jafarieh, that people could change the composition of food and water through positive thinking. “I know some people that through that energetical transformation, through the power of prayer, though the power of gratitude, they managed to turn the most toxic food or maybe most polluted water into the most healing water, because water reacts … molecules in the water react to our emotions, to what is being said,” the 34-year-old, explained.At the time, Jafarieh was selling $50 bottles of Advanced Brain Nutrients.US player-turned-commentator Mary Carillo criticised Djokovic’s comments in the clip as “dangerous” and “disturbing”, while tennis writer Ben Rothenberg noted that this “pseudoscience” was garnering hundreds of thousands of views because of the world champion’s far-reaching platform.More on Novak DjokovicDjokovic – who says he has a Covid-19 vaccine medical exemption – had previously written in his autobiography Serve To Win about…
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Novak Djokovic's oddest clashes with science as tennis star awaits Australia deportation decision
