--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > I have to comment on this because it's one of the > most insane statements I've ever heard. The very > *idea* that a couple of fanatical crackpots on a > little-read Usenet forum could damage the career > of a prize-winning journalist is ludicrous
I gave in to temptation: "I think Skolnick is...one of the worst examples of journalism and/or rational thought I have ever encountered ANYWHERE! My point in replying to some of his more ludicrous posts is simply to point out the latter, NOT to defend TM. ANY journalist worth his salt could find legitimate concerns in the TM movement, without needing to resort to the exaggeration, insinuation, misdirection, mistakes, paranoia, and outright lying that seem to be Mr. Skolnick's trademark. I would actually RESPECT a well-done, well- researched critical study of the TM movement, but find little or nothing to respect in Mr. Skolnick's hatchet jobs."--Barry (posting as "shoki"), alt.meditation.transcendental, April 1995
