On Nov 17, 2006, at 8:02 AM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote:
FF essayist Thom Krystofiak, who used to write frequently and post on FFL, has a piece published in this week's FF Weekly Reader. Entitled Sanitizing the Fairfield Story. About the pr-people of the TMorg taking the Washington Post's glowing uncritical article about Maharishi's MUM, Vedic City and TM- Fairfield and their taking the article, re-publishing it and sanitizing it further. More than a couple of touch-up evidently as Thom reviews further what was done. What are they thinking when they do that? They really did not need to, but the damage, to their credibility of anything else they say or write becomes material. Their peer-review stuff,, their own press- releases, their own explainations about what they do with the money, their own explainations about what they may be doing for world peace to what end. What were they thinking in their needing to sneak re-write that Washington Post article without attribution? In itself it is just so revealing about the cult of their culture up there inside. Is stunning to watch them do it. Would be interesting to hear them try to explain their actions in a critical interview. "What Maharishi is doing is more important than anything anyone else is doing...", thus justifying anything they may do, to his end? Becomes the take-off point where good people can do bad things they may not otherwise do. Seeing this again with the TMorg and our friends up there? It does become about the moral integrity of those doing it and their cause they represent. The sanitizing of the Washington Post story is pretty poor which crosses over to being pretty bad.
Seems pretty clear they're willing to sanitize *anything*, even research they claim is scientific.
