--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:45 PM, off_world_beings wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" > > > <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Big deal. > > > > > > > > Even if, as a result of the research study, it comes > > > > out as a positive thing to do TM, who trusts the TMO > > > > anymore? Heck, I'm a 36 year regular meditator and > > > > even I don't trust their research...>> > > > > > > Fortunately no serious person on the planet puts your > > > opinion over published scientific research. > > > > > Uh, they just got the grant Off. I realize the TMO has > > already reached a conclusion, after all it's being done > > by biased TB's, but please wait till they perform the > > study to start saying it's published and that the results > > were oh so great! > > That isn't even remotely what Off said, of course. > > Vaj lies *reflexively*, without thinking about it. He > lies even when the refutation of the lie is quoted in > the same post as the lie. >
The TMO research will have a narrow focus on CHD. All they are doing is adding TM as a stress reduction program to an existing program, for which they have already have predictable results they can compare with the addition of TM. Have the Buddhist done a comparable study? Probably not, otherwise Vaj would be crowing about it. Instead he makes knee-jerk put-downs of Schneider and discounts the possibility that TM may actually produce an improvement for CHD patients. The very specific parameters of the TM study, which includes visually studying PET blood flow to the heart, should produce some very conclusive results. How many here would wager that even if the TM study produces the results the TMO hopes, Vaj will find a way to dismiss it without even reading the research? He will ALWAYS claim superiority of Buddhist research over TM but will never shows us a single comparable study. Have the Buddhist subjected their cardiac patients to a study like the one proposed by Schneider? Probably not. "And while standard cardiac rehabilitation usually includes supervised exercise and lifestyle education, it does not usually include a formal stress reduction program. "Now, for the first time, this study will evaluate whether adding stress reduction through the Transcendental Meditation technique to conventional cardiac rehabilitation will aid in the treatment of serious CHD compared to conventional cardiac rehabilitation alone," Dr. Schneider said. Patients will be carefully evaluated before and after the study for changes in their coronary artery disease with the most advanced noninvasive methods for measuring cardiac function-PET or positron emission tomography. According to Sabahat Bokhari, MD, Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center and study co-director, "PET is an innovative imaging technology that allows us to visually and non-invasively study blood flow to the heart. With this state-of-the-art technology, doctors can now measure the blood flow to the heart and thus quantify the full impact of stress reduction on CHD."
