> Much of the doctrine is not acceptable to a modern Western worldview, so researchers of meditation have to cherry-pick the parts of Buddhism they like and ignore the rest. For example, they might draw from certain passages of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta about developing mindfulness of the breath and body but overlook other passages about meditating over a corpse at a charnel ground. Or they might integrate into their research the Dalai Lama’s teachings on compassion, but they stop listening when he gets to the teachings on rebirth.

David Chapman has a whole (long, elaborate) theory about this:

https://vividness.live/consensus-buddhism

(actually I guess you could spend several days tracking down all of the different pieces of this account that Chapman has written across his several web sites!)