--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- markmeredith2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > More a very unusual hypothesis with some slight > > > empirical support. Not enough to build a theory on > > > becaue there is so much empirical evidence which > > > completely contradicts the M.A. "theory" as it is > > now > > > constructed. > > > > > > > > > > Which emperical evidence contradicts the ME theory? > > The prima facie fact that large numbers of meditators > in Fairfield, Iowa have not reduced the crime rate > there. Post hoc explanations/metaphors such as the > "washing machine effect" indicate that the ME theory > has a long way to go in its development as a formal > theory. I'm not dismissing the ME, but it is far from > a complete theory. Right now it is a hypothesis, not a > theory.
The ME theory is a large numbers theory. The crime rate of Fairfield could be skewed by having a single pickpocket living among the sidhas. For that matter, the traffic accident rate during the Taste of Utopia course could go up because the town's adult population more than doubled (tripled) during that time. To accurately measure the predicted claims of the ME, you would need a much larger statistical sample population for them to effect than Fairfield, IA, like Washington, DC. That's not to claim that there might not be SOME measurable positive effect, only that you can't really claim the ME to be supported or non-supported, based on Fairfield statistics (of course, the TMO does exactly that when it suits them, but that's the PR biz for you). ------------------------ 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/
