{"id":4869,"date":"2005-10-20T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:13:30","slug":"sciantists_mad_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"Scientists mad at Dalai Lama – NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some neuroscientists are claiming the Dalai Lama is making unsubstantiated claims (unsubstantiated by their scientific method) for the value of meditaion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an excerpt. I probably inadvertently violated copyright laws by publishing the picture so don’t tell the AP.  The link to the full article is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Next month in Washington, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak about the research at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But 544 brain researchers have signed a petition urging the society to cancel the lecture, because, according to the petition, ‘it will highlight a subject with largely unsubstantiated claims and compromised scientific rigor and objectivity.'” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the link – Scientists Bridle at Lecture Plan for Dalai Lama – New York Times<\/a> You may have to register with the NYT to read the article – it’s free and easy to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some neuroscientists are claiming the Dalai Lama is making unsubstantiated claims (unsubstantiated by their scientific method) for the value of meditaion. Here’s an excerpt. I probably inadvertently violated copyright laws by publishing the picture so don’t tell the AP.  The link to the full article is below. “Next month in Washington, the Dalai Lama is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12227,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}