--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:06 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> 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? > > Read the archives of this list dude. Darth Rishi has a long history > of forced micromanagement.
I have. please furnish something more specific than "a long history." > > > > > 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. > > See the previous post on why this is the case. > Again, that's not how scientists are supposed to address the issue.
