--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In 1994 Hagelin was the recipient of an Ig Nobel Prize, which is > > for > > > "achievements" that "cannot, or should not, be reproduced", i.e., > > for > > > pseudoscience. In his case the prize was awarded for his > > experimental > > > conclusion that 4,000 meditators at the Maharishi University of > > > Management caused an 18 percent decrease in crime in Washington, > > DC. > > > > ....research which was later published in a peer-reviewed journal: > > Social Indicators Research, 47, 153201, whilst the sceintists who > > gave out the ignobel prize in 1994, have gone back to their > > teaching jobs, and are struggling to get any recognition or > > published work. > > Don't dis the folks who award the Ig Nobels either. > They're exceptionally savvy and thoughtful people.
The following quote is from Prof. Paul Meyers from U of Minn. in response to a question about an intelligent design guy who got a paper published in a science journal: "Well, first of all, sometimes real crap gets published in peer- reviewed journals, and sometimes really great stuff has to struggle to get the approval of other scientists. It's not an absolute sine qua non of good research -- it's more of a stochastic thing, where what counts more is what kind of work snowballs into a lot of research... The whole shoddy affair illustrates why Intelligent Design creationism isn't science. They are scrabbling to put up a facade, but science isn't about words in a journal or a collection of degrees: it is a process. It's science if it is being continually tested, if there is research being done to critically evaluate the components of the theory. There is no research being done on intelligent design, nor can there be--there aren't any testable hypotheses in their proposal." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/6/95138/89017 It's good that tmo scientists try to get published, but the spirit of the whole effort seems to fall more under PR than science - and until at least one independent scientist is impressed enough by the maharishi effect research to begin the long process of replication, then it's still an proven theory. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
