--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sparaig wrote: > > > > I've made it a hobby for 30 years to read and analyze the TM research > > (as best I can with my limited math background --who the hell is > > Jenkins, and what is he doing in a box?). > > > > The physiological stuff has gotten quite sophisticated. The Ayurvedic > > research is getting pretty mature, also. ME stuff isn't studied any > > more, AFAIK. > > It would be interesting to see a compilation of the solid > research, and the grounds on which it's considered solid. > > I heard something second-hand during my MIU days. > A science journal editor purportedly waded through > the hundreds of TM studies extant at the time (1978 > or '79) and pronounced 25% to be junk, 50% to be of > common rigor and 25% to be tight, solid research. Can't > remember who reported that, however. Makes a big > difference whether Keith Wallace said it or a graduate > student said it.
Maybe by the standards of 1978, the speaker was correct. By today's standards, I'd say the same thing today (based on my layman's understanding), but NOT about the 1978-era stuff: it was nearly all schlock by today's standards. Science itself matures in the sense that the techniques, mathematical analysis and equipment improve. This is something you need to keep in mind for relatively young sciences such as psychology and neuroscience. An important clue about what is "rock-solid" coming out of MUM: if it involves researchers from other universities, ESPECIALLY researchers who do not practice TM, its probably first- rate. The closer the ties to TM and MUM, the more suspect it is, as a rule-of-thumb. Some research is so cut-and-dried that I tend to trust it, even if it is MUM-only (e.g. the TC studies, because the researchers acknowledge that they cherry pickedthe subjects so there's no question that the results are well-skewed). 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/
