User talk:Really2012forgotpassword

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[edit] Request for help at What The Bleep...

Hi Really,

I think we've got our hands full at WTBDWK, and I think (don't know, but think) that it's probably not good form to request help on another article's talk page...better to leave messages on talk pages of individual editors when requesting guidance or input.

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Comments...

TM has been discussed widely in the press, Google's news archive yields almost 8,000 press items on TM from sources that Google considers to be "news" -- typically this indicates that these are probably reliable sources.

Of those sources, there are 41 hits that also include "paranormal" or "parapsychology" in an article associated with TM. Then, there are 34 hits discussing TM in the context of "paranormal". Now, the articles that exist that discuss TM in the context of "paranormal" do not necessarily indicate that TM IS a "paranormal" phenomenon, many of the summaries I saw related to news items about research positing that TM is NOT paranormal. Either way, 34 "paranormal" hits divided by 8,000 total hits is a pretty small number, so I'd say that putting the article on TM into the "paranormal" category is a bit of a stretch and that those advocating such categorization have a pretty high bar to meet.

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On the other hand, there does appear to have been an extended discussion about in the news about whether or not the Mahesh organization may be "cultish" in nature. , FYI, 314 hits from Google's News Archive. See WP:Google for more information.

Feel free to copy and paste the above two paragraph analysis into your discussion at Transcendental meditation, but please understand that I have no interest in joining the discussion at this point. There are a number of editors pushing hard to get things that they feel are pseudo-scientific categorized as such, and while I think it's well meant...it's gone a little overboard lately. No matter, I don't have a horse in that race.

riverguy42 aka WNDL42 (talk) 17:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)