Have you ever looked at mindfulness research?
Most of it makes TM research look absolutely brilliant in its design and
execution.
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote :
While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO
promoted
There are two main problems with scientific studies of meditation: 1) a
scientific definition of meditation and 2) exclude the randomized placebo
effect with controlled trials. Most scientific studies on the subject are not
double-blind studies.
According to Harris, there is no substitute
While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO
promoted science as a matter of course. TMO promoted science is about 1%
reliable based on various reviews of study size, controls, and experimental
design. It's the dumbing down effect of religious memes that prevent
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
As much as I may agree with you about the trustworthiness of TM science, my
science-writing gig the last couple of years has given me a similar distrust.
Not of science per se, but certainly of science journalism, how science is
As much as I may agree with you about the trustworthiness of TM science, my
science-writing gig the last couple of years has given me a similar distrust.
Not of science per se, but certainly of science journalism, how science is
reported in the general press.
It's caused me to realize that the
I certainly agree about that. I always try to find the original paper if I can,
or at least the abstract, so I can evaluate how much the writer is glossing
over or whether they are giving it a particular slant, or exaggerating what was
found. That is in addition to lower level scientists who
