--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > It all depends on what the people who *use* the > science want to accomplish. To be perfectly honest, > the ME research is designed to be used to get people > to give Maharishi shitloads of money, NOT to get > people to start TM. I'd say it would be more > productive to focus on studies that would do the > latter. For example, one-third of the adult popu- > lation of America and many other countries is on a > constant prescription of antidepressants. How 'bout > a side-by-side study of TM as treatment vs drugs as > treatment, dealing with cost and results and side > effects. If *that* reseach turned out positive, it > could easily and might easily be believed. But the > ME? Forget it. The *only* reason anyone is doing > any studies on it is to "prove Maharishi right," > and let's face it, how many people in the world > care about that? >
MMY formally cancelled any new ME studies after the DC study, I believe. This doesn't invalidate your point of course. The DC study was a tremendous gamble that sorta paid off, at least in the eyes of the TMO. Any future research of that magnitude and level of scrutiny would probably backfire, regardless ofthe existence or non-existence of the ME, since the odds are that the next large-scale study won't be as positive, just due to the regression to the mean thing, if nothing else. 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/
