--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> 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.
>

Cites? Which research published in peer-reviewed journals, has been sanitized?


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