--- In [email protected], "qntmpkt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > 4. Mr. Knapp has a monetary vested interest in stirring up a > hornet's nest of controversy since he gets paid by the supposed > victims of abuse. This invalidates his crummy ploy.
This is too funny. John Knapp of Trancenet has a post up on his TMFree blog with this headline: Top Researchers Challenge Meditation Research Read all about it. They take on Transcendental Meditation research specifically. He provides this link: http://www.rushprnews.com/press/archives/1231082 But Knapp didn't read the the page at the link very carefully. What the "top researchers" are challenging is not TM research, but a study (the same one Vaj posted about recently) that claims all meditation research, including that of TM, is of poor quality--exactly the opposite of what Knapp's headline and tease imply. Or maybe Knapp was just hoping nobody would actually go look at what was at the link. He's done that sort of thing before many times. The page links to an MUM page that contains links to two research reviews of the study in question: http://www.mum.edu/inmp/researchreviews.html You may recall that I questioned the appropriateness of the Jadad scale in the study to evaluate the quality of the research on meditation after Vaj had touted it as definitive at finding bias; and Vaj was, of course, scornful of my skepticism. Well, both the research reviews point out that there are many questions among researchers about the appropriateness of the Jadad scale for evaluating studies such as those on meditation --just as I had suspected and Vaj denied. Both reviews also point out large numbers of flaws in the study they say should have been fixed before it was published. (Oh, and Vaj, it's Jadad, not "JADAD," as you had it. Jadad is the name of the guy who devised it, not an acronym.)
