--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@> > wrote: > > > > The book Why God Won't Go Away includes discussion of some brain > research while > > people are doing various typees of meditation. The author is a > professor at th Univ of Penn > > in Philadelphia (can't remember his name at the moment). He is > very engaged in this type > > of research and is a legitimate sicentist. > > ALl such books are written by people with agendas. All studies done > on meditation are also done by people with agendas, but the > scientific method is designed to reduce bias, but has been shown not to be effective in doing so in many cases unless studies are double blind. Discussedin "expectatons" in scientif studies post of several says ago.
Double blind is hard to do for meditation studies. Its more complex than dose response studies with a new drug and a placebo. Still, meditating scientists working in a high expectations institution, cannot be expected produce bias-free work. Even outside of MUM, studies with non-meditating scientists have funding sources that often have at least subtle expectations -- thats why they funded the research. "It would be very cool, and the research would put us on the map, and increase donations, if we funded a meditation study that proved far more cost-effective than drugs." > which isn't usually the > case with books, though the Noetic Instute's summary of meditation > research through 1995 is a pretty neutral source, IMHO. > > The pubmed search engine has veritually all the latest research on > meditation, etc., listed (if it's in a "peer reviewed" journal). The > other URLs I've listed are also of value, IMHO. > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed > > http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/ch_intro1.htm > > > Books seldom are unless you happen to already agree with the author > and want a nice bullet-list of Talking Points. > > For TM, any of the Movement sanctioned books by TM researchers is a > good start. The research coming out of the Dali Lama's institute is > probably your best source for Buddhist-related meditation research. > Likewise with any books that they publish. > ------------------------ 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/
