--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Curtis -- Barry Markovsky called TM a stealth religion. I think > that is quite apt considering how he and his minions have suckered so > many ordinary folks into paying for the absurd claims of > opportunistic Maheshism. *If something good happens, we are > responsible; otherwise, we blame people for being negative.* >
???Actually, Maharishi said, concerning the Maharishi Effect, that if we take claim for the good, we must also take claim for the bad. IOW, if the ME works and is responsible for good things in the world, then the fact that the ME hasn't been implemented on a large scale is the fault of the TMO and any bad that continues is also the fault of the TMO. > Butt-bouncing for whirrled peas. Like Steve said, eventually people > will figure it out. > > I don't know, however, if the Maheshites' claims about the MishMash > Effect are, as you say, 'un-falsifiable'. Quite a lot got written by > actual scientists almost as soon as the TMO published. > Often by people who hadn't read the ME studies, or if they had, were biased already. For example Barry Markovsky managed to put a tiny footnote in an otherwise excellent critique of the ME itself, where he claimed that there was evidence of unethical behavior on the part of the ME researchers because they didn't bother to obtain the permission of their test subjects before conducting the studies... > If I can find any of those documents, I'll add them to the TMO the > Odd Side in the Files section. > They're found in the MINET and trancenet.org sites. Trancenet is no more, but Scientia.org, a pseudo-psuedo-TM meditation organization sponsors a selective archive of it. 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/
