--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Someone wants to know:
>
> Hi, Rick,
>
> I remember reading years ago about a lab analysis of MAPI amrit kalash
> that found inordinate amounts of rat fur and feces therein. Do you
> recall? Can you put your fingers on the study?
I suspect you're thinking of something that was reported
in the "debunking" article written by Andrew Skolnick for
JAMA a couple decades ago.
As I recall, this occurred during an investigation of
two MA-V physicians in England by the state medical
board (they were eventually sanctioned for purportedly
having given unproven treatments to AIDS patients).
The investigators claimed a sample of an MA-V preparation
(I don't believe it was Amrit Kalash) showed *traces* of
bacteria that were said to have come from feces (I don't
think the source of the feces was specified).
However, the sample was apparently destroyed in the
testing. The defense insisted that the bacteria in
question were *not* from feces, but the results couldn't
be checked because the sample had been used up.
In any case, no action was taken on the basis of the
claim of contamination, and it did not figure in the
sanctions imposed on the doctors; it wasn't even
cited in the press release issued by the medical
council on the sanctions.
What Skolnick mentioned in his article was from a
newspaper account of the investigation; but he failed
to report on the rebuttal or to note the above. The
impression he left (almost certainly deliberately)
was that the alleged contamination was not only an
established fact, but that it was part of the reason
the doctors were sanctioned by the medical board.
There was extensive discussion of this issue on
alt.meditation.transcendental some years back; if you
do a Google Groups search in alt.m.t for the term
"feces," you'll find oodles of posts on it.
I'm unaware of any "studies," other than this single
test, that claimed to have found anything untoward
in MA-V preparations.
(Incidentally, Skolnick helpfully called the British
newspaper report to the attention of the FDA and
"suggested" that they conduct an investigation of
MAPI products in the U.S. The FDA did so. It found
no contamination in any products but did cite MAPI
for lax quality control procedures, which, according
to MAPI, it subsequently tightened up significantly.)
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