So are you saying that there is a medical conspiracy to exclude TM"research"?
More likely regular scientists and researchers recognize that the "research" on
TM isn't worth including in their studies since the "research" is highly flawed
- the only people who say differently are the TM people and the parrots.
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On Fri, 3/21/14, lengli...@cox.net <lengli...@cox.net> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: JAMA on meditation
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, March 21, 2014, 6:25 AM
A few nits with that eview:
1) it only examined clinical populations, so the
effect of meditation on stress levels on normal people was
not evaluated
2) it only looked at psychological test results,
with one exception: weight loss, which no meditation
practice affected in clinical populations.
Because of the odd way that the review was done,
a study by Richard Schneider, which found significant
reductions in measures of stress like hypertension, death
from stroke, etc., was counted as "no effect"
because the psychological test on subjects revealed that they were low
anxiety at the start, and remained low anxiety at the
end.
0 - 0 = 0, and therefore the study found "no
effect" on stress.
David Orme-Johnson then submitted TM 35 studies
that weren't included that he said met their criteria,
but the authors responded that they didn't effect the
results in any substantial way. I've yet to hear if he
has been able to examine how they evaluated the 35 new
studies to reach the conclusion "no significant change
in their review."
L.
