That's the problem: There's zero "controlled testing". Just another feeble attempt to prove the ME (The Maharishi - Effect, now called the Meissner-like effect.. I'm not saying there's no ME. It's simply beyond the capacity of modern science to measure it objectively. Correlation is not causation. How many times to people need to repeat that? From Wikipedia on the Maharishi Effect::
According to Hagelin, the analysis was examined by an "independent review board", although all members of the board were TM practitioners. Robert L. Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park, research professor and former chair of the Physics Department at the University of Maryland, called the study a "clinic in data distortion".[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-Park2000pp29-31-14 In 1994 a science satire magazine, Annals of Improbable Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Improbable_Research, "awarded" Hagelin the Ig Nobel Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize for Peace, "for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C."[34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-34[35] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-35 In 1999 Hagelin held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to announce that the TM movement could end the Kosovo War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War with yogic flying. He suggested that NATO set up an elite corps of 7,000 yogic flyers at a cost of $33 million.[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-Fox2005-15[36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagelin#cite_note-36 SHALOM
