--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone wants to know: > > Hi, Rick, > > I remember reading years ago about a lab analysis of MAPI amrit kalash > that found inordinate amounts of rat fur and feces therein. Do you > recall? Can you put your fingers on the study?
I suspect you're thinking of something that was reported in the "debunking" article written by Andrew Skolnick for JAMA a couple decades ago. As I recall, this occurred during an investigation of two MA-V physicians in England by the state medical board (they were eventually sanctioned for purportedly having given unproven treatments to AIDS patients). The investigators claimed a sample of an MA-V preparation (I don't believe it was Amrit Kalash) showed *traces* of bacteria that were said to have come from feces (I don't think the source of the feces was specified). However, the sample was apparently destroyed in the testing. The defense insisted that the bacteria in question were *not* from feces, but the results couldn't be checked because the sample had been used up. In any case, no action was taken on the basis of the claim of contamination, and it did not figure in the sanctions imposed on the doctors; it wasn't even cited in the press release issued by the medical council on the sanctions. What Skolnick mentioned in his article was from a newspaper account of the investigation; but he failed to report on the rebuttal or to note the above. The impression he left (almost certainly deliberately) was that the alleged contamination was not only an established fact, but that it was part of the reason the doctors were sanctioned by the medical board. There was extensive discussion of this issue on alt.meditation.transcendental some years back; if you do a Google Groups search in alt.m.t for the term "feces," you'll find oodles of posts on it. I'm unaware of any "studies," other than this single test, that claimed to have found anything untoward in MA-V preparations. (Incidentally, Skolnick helpfully called the British newspaper report to the attention of the FDA and "suggested" that they conduct an investigation of MAPI products in the U.S. The FDA did so. It found no contamination in any products but did cite MAPI for lax quality control procedures, which, according to MAPI, it subsequently tightened up significantly.) ------------------------ 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/
