--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thing is, I know several of the researchers. They're all > true believers, but when they're wearing the hat of a > researcher, they're a lot more skeptical than you seem > to believe.
I defer to your experience. I suspect that some of the TM-related research is strong, but I also suspect that some of it is laughably weak. I'm only speaking to the mindset of true believer posing as dispassionate scientist. If you're looking for something to validate your own strongly-held belief system, the tendency is to "find" it. On the other hand, there are research projects that turn out to have real researchers manning them, who are not afraid to admit it when their assumptions turn out to be wrong. I'm thinking of the recent long-term study on "the power of prayer" with regard to healing. The researchers expected to find a correlation between "being prayed for" and faster healing; in fact they found that either there was no correlation, or in some cases, the people being "prayed for" got worse or healed more slowly than statistics say they should have. I'd feel better about the TM research if there were a few more of those kinds of studies, along the lines of, "We expected to find X positive result and didn't find it." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
