But I am sad > to hear you say that you are throwing out ALL of modern
science > because it doesn't suit your opinion. On that idea are
fascist states > born.

What are you talking about?  Do you think that my lack desire to do TM
means that I am rejecting science?  Do you believe that the research
into the benifits of TM means that everyone should do it?  

I rejected the states TM was developing in me for my own personal
reasons.  It has nothing to do with a chart that shows that chilling
out with TM in fact chills you out.  Perhaps TM isn't the only way to
chill out. 


--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" 
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > I spent a month with David OJ studying the collected papers.  Some
> > published research is better than others.  One critical context to
> > evaluate about research is what conclusions are being drawn from
> > the studies.  This is an area were even some good movement studies
> > fall down IMO.  In other words, it is possible to do a good study on
> > improvements on a  rod and frame test. It is another thing to
> > extrapolate that this means that mediators have a more stable 
> internal
> >  state of reference. 
> > 
> > Although I share your enthusiasm for the scientific method as a tool
> > to expand knowledge, I don't forget that it is always humans using
> > this tool.  It is never practiced in purity.  The TM studies are not
> > all on one level of reliability, published or not.  David went into 
> a
> > lot of detail about which tests were more rigorous than others.
> > Getting published is only one aspect in  evaluating the credibility 
> of
> > scientific research.  >>>
> 
> That is fairly common in science, and that is why the rigor aspect 
> needs to be constantly refined, and a lot of the TM research was 
> found be more robust than most studies in any science. But I am sad 
> to hear you say that you are throwing out ALL of modern science 
> because it doesn't suit your opinion. On that idea are fascist states 
> born.
> 
> I won't go down that road. 
> THE ONLY (I stress, THE ONLY) way for people to agree on things in 
> the world are through study and replication under validated 
> conditions. A LOT of the most important research on TM is robust, and 
> only anti-science freaks bring up the argument that if 1 in 10 of 
> them is not strong, then they are, by default , ALL of them weak.  
> That is the way of the Neocons and I am appalled to see so many 
> people here on FFL, like Boo, Ru, Poo, Lurk, Turq, Smirk, Jurk, Curt, 
> and Burt, all acting EXACTLY like the Neocons when something in 
> science does not suit their opinion.
> 
> I am appalled.
> 
> OffWorld
>


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