--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Feb 14, 2009, at 6:00 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > No point in us arguing this. We disagree as to their conclusions. > > Apparently you can't believe that they have the background to conclude > > that the studies they excluded from their report were either not > > sufficiently rigorous or did not report anything of significant > > interest. > > > > It is, however, the TM researcher's job to specifically show what the > > theoretical framework is for their work. > > > Interesting because one of the researchers is probably the most > qualified man in the world to comment on EEG, having been the section > editor of the state of the art work on Human electroencephalography, > esp. electroencephalography and meditation. Davidson's also the man > who's systematically mapped the correlates of alpha. > > These guys ain't no slouchers. ;-) >
Bias in a specific field of interest is orthogonal to expertise. Well, not exactly, the greater the level of expertise, the more likely a researcher has biases, just because. > But I agree, it's probably not worth discussing without someone > willing to be honest and objective. Fundamentalists aren't likely to > change their beliefs, but they will do whatever they can to obfuscate > and misdirect, a form of dishonesty common in fundamentalists of many > sorts. > Pot, kettle black time again, Vaj. L.
