Editor’s note: Below are two responses to Robert Schneider’s defense of his Transcendental Meditation paper, which Schneider wrote in response to my earlier article about the publication of his paper. In the first part I respond to some of the general issues raised by Schneider. The second part, from Sanjay Kaul, addresses the statistical issues discussed by…
Investigator Defends Controversial Transcendental Meditation Paper
November 20, 2012 by 5 Comments
Editor’s Note: Here is a response by Dr. Robert Schneider to my story last week about his controversial paper on Transcendental Meditation that appeared in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes. I will respond to Dr. Schneider’s post later this week. Response from Dr. Robert Schneider We appreciate the interest in our article published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Outcomes…
Mysterious Disappearing Paper Finally Reappears In Another Journal
November 13, 2012 by 34 Comments
Updated– Last year, in what may have been an unprecedented action, a paper on the effects of Transcendental Mediation (TM) in African Americans was withdrawn by the editors only 12 minutes before the paper’s scheduled publication in Archives of Internal Medicine. No definitive explanation was ever provided, though the editors and authors said that the action…
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