--- In [email protected], "Bill (William)Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course the larger the number the better in studies worth any > serious consideration. > > However, > > Fairfield itself offers an amazing case study. Because of the length > of time factor of the study group. > > 1. There would have been a crime rate prior to TM's introduction into > the community and should be verifable through past > public/police/court records. > > 2. Then the introduction of TM and its organization to the community. > > 3. And a 30 year study period in which the crime rate could be > tracted along with the steady growth of practising meditators. > > To my way of thinking. Thirty years of meditations by a steadily > increasing population of meditators (far exceeding the 1% cl;aimed > necessary to reverse rising crime rates) must result in a reduction > in Fairfield's crime rates or the whole ME therory is disproved. > > Has Fairfield itself ever been the subject of such a study. If > not,,,why not!!! How many crimminal offenses were reported in > Fairfield in the year TM meditators began in Fairfield and how many > reported offenses occured say last year? The trends should point to > a declining crime rate given the significant number of meditators in > the community. >
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