What I remember, and acknowledge that my memory is faulty, from so long ago is a dramatic last sentence, something along the lines of: if scientific method can validate such a finding, then perhaps we need to reassess scientific method.
________________________________ From: authfriend <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 7:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting finding on when scientific studies are considered "fake" --- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Here's my favorite story about so called scientific objectivity. > In which I do not believe. Just as I do not believe in > journalistic objectivity. > > A study on Maharishi Effect published in Journal of Conflict > Resolution. Published in same issue was an open letter from > one of the peer reviewers. From University of West Virginia, > I think. > > He said that if the Maharishi Effect could be upheld by > scientific method, then we need to rethink that method > seriously. > > I'd say that his world view was completely shaken. End of > objectivity. I read his letter in context. I did not understand him to be expressing the tinest doubt in either the scientific method or his worldview--to the contrary.
