[FairfieldLife] Sponsorship Bias in Scientific Studies

2006-08-04 Thread new . morning
Relevance for MUM /TMO salaried researchers. Simply Disclosing Funds Behind Studies May Not Erase Bias By SHIRLEY S. WANG August 4, 2006; Page A11 WSJ Think you can't be bought for the price of a pen? Neither do most people. But we can be notoriously poor at judging ourselves, and our honesty,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sponsorship Bias in Scientific Studies

2006-08-04 Thread Vaj
One wonders if this would even be magnified by a guru-disciple relationship or by a followers' mentality which associates good reports of the followers' meditation technique (or any technique) with being a good disciple, adjusting to the guru's thinking, etc.? In other words if you're a