--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:53 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > Heh. Sorry, Vaj. Internal politics in the TMO isn't supposed to > > influence how scientists deal > > with published research. The research has to be evaluated on its > > own merits. > > Well, yes, of course, but that is not what I'm referring to. What I'm > referring to is reports of Mahesh *telling* researchers 'this is what > you'll find' and threatening them if they don't.
Documentation? And where did MMY tell researchers that they would find reductions in thalamic activity? This would be like > tobacco companies or a college president looming over your research > result interpretation before it's reported. Except in this case the > researchers are being loomed over by someone they (despite being > scientists) accept as perfect, omniscient and enlightened. Even > cigarette company researchers or oil company climatologists aren't > under that much pressure. > > > > And to ignore the research, rather than to evaluate it, shows that > > they simply don't want to > > deal with the implications. > > I don't feel that is the case. I just don't think they're impressed > nor do they consider it significant. > In the context of a paper purporting to give a general overview of meditation and meditation research, they are REQUIRED to say why they don't feel it significant. Instead, they pretend the research doesn't exist.
