--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <<<Thus the need for mutltiple > > studies by different groups of independent researchers. Good > > statistical modeling is part art, part technical -- based on a deep > > knowledge of hard-core statisics. > > > > One study, even if peer reviewed, doesn't establish that much -- > it is not definitive.>>> > > > Except if it is a "cancer sure", or something, then you will never > hear the end of it for months from the scientists, the financiers, > and the media, until it is realised that the one study was not > enough and the thing doesn't work. > > > <<Multiple independent studies are needed to establish > > viable new explanations and causes. Particularly something as > > non-intuitive as the ME.>>> > > > Well , that is why there is the peer-review process. > Because "independant studies ' do not exist. Someone researching the > ME may be biased against it also. Therefore the peer-review exists. > > There are at least 3 credible studies published under peer-review > for ME. Travis had two published in Int. Journal of Neuroscience, > and there are a couple of others which have withstood extreme > skeptical pounding of a scale never before submitted to any other > studies probably anywhere. No study on earth could come out of such > prejudiced scrutiny and not loose some face, but these studies have > stood up pretty well considering. >
Fred's doctoral thesis on interpersonal EEG coherence was published in a peer-reviewed journal, but as far as I know, the phenomenon has never been replicated. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
