--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > I would say that the same phenomenon would be present > > in research on any technique of meditation in which > > the meditators were devoted practitioners of the > > technique being "researched." They already know what > > they're hoping to find, and thus they "find" it. > > That should have been: > > ...in which the *researchers* were devoted practitioners... > > I just don't understand why anyone would take "research" > seriously that is undertaken by someone who obviously > wants that research to turn out a certain way. Too much > of the TM "research" is sadly in the same category as > studies on smoking paid for by the tobacco industry.
Again, a great deal of scientific research is undertaken by those who would like it to come out a certain way. Until it's been published in a peer-reviewed journal and evaluated by the scientific community, *no* research should be taken seriously. But just as research that hasn't gone through this process should not be assumed to be valid, so it should not be assumed *not* to be valid. Somehow I have the feeling that you would take research concluding that TM isn't effective or has awful negative side-effects quite seriously even if it hasn't yet gone through the reviewing process. It wouldn't even cross your mind to ask whether the researchers wanted it to "come out a certain way." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
