--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a letter to the editor in last Thursday�s Ledger, Anna Saxon Wendell > wrote, �Over 600 independent (not conducted by meditators) scientific > studies have confirmed consistently that when 1 percent of the population of > a city or country regularly practices transcendental meditation the crime > rate in that location drops dramatically.� > > I�m thinking of writing a letter this week clarifying this. I would say > something like, �Most of the 600 studies conducted to date were done my > meditators. They range in quality from crappy to excellent. The 600+ studies > cover a wide range of topics. Only ?? were conducted on the influence of > meditation on social violence, and all of those were conducted by > meditators. This doesn�t necessarily render them invalid, but I just wanted > to set the record straight.� > > My questions to you all are: > 1. How many of the studies were on the effects of TM-Sidhis on crime/war?
Maybe 2 dozen total. Only a two or at most three were published *as studies* in refereed journals, as far as I know. Some were published in a "review of evidence" article in a refereed journal. > 2. Were any of those conducted my non-meditators? The statistics were all supposed to be from public sources, but as far as I know, the evaluation of the statistics was all done by meditators. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
