--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2009, at 9:34 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > > > > Fortunately no serious person on the planet puts > > > your opinion over published scientific research. > > > > Why should they? > > > > I'm not a scientist. > > One reason they'd have for taking you seriously is because > you're both a TM teacher and an MIU grad, and therefore > you're the most likely to be biased and to stand behind > their research, like a True Believer would. So when you > produce a clearly dissenting opinion, it tends to make > one raise their eyebrows.
Unless, of course, they happened to know that Shemp has less than zero "investment" in the TMO. > Why would someone so invested in an org and a product > go against them? Maybe because, not being a scientist, they've been misled by unscrupulous critics about the quality of TM research on, say, an Internet forum?