> And to suggest that any of this abstract scientific mumbo-jumbo, coming from > a clownish operation like the TMO, actually carries any significant effective > weight in the legitimate scientific community in terms of supporting TM and > the TMO's theoretical version of Vedic ideology, is beyond laughable. >
It carries no weight in the academic community and continual hyping of this kind of stuff is one of the reasons MUM has such a low standing. But non-academics can get taken in by the sciency sounding claims and the TMO makes a big deal out of the sciency sounding stuff. It does fool people and allow the TMO to separate fools from their money and it is plain wrong. You can have opinions on other aspects of TM and the TMO, but at least when they make big statements which are contradicted by generally accepted experimental evidence you can say "that's wrong". If CERN doesn't find a Higgs Boson then unified field theories are in big trouble. If people stop believing that there's a unified field theory then what happens to the explanations about the ME? How is the TMO going to keep on raising millions from the faithful by talking up "the technology of the unified field" if CERN finds that there ain't one. The TMO has bet the farm on a particular variant of unified field theories which JH happened to have been involved with when he was a physicist. The chances of it being right are very small and getting smaller with each bit of experimental evidence.
