New study claims Transcendental Meditation 'cuts risk of heart attack by half'

Why would you suspect that Hacker News readers would be most interested in a meditation technique that is heavily grounded in metaphysics?

Bear in mind we're talking about the Telegraph here...they're just as likely to publish an op-ed tomorrow dismissing yoga as an effete liberal pursuit and bemoaning the difficulty of obtaining a traditional English steak and kidney pie or Yorkshire pudding, an edible form of kryptonite.

The WP article is a completely whitewashed history of the organization, clearly edited by TM people. The organization has a loooooooong history of making dubious claims based mostly on research performed by its own people. http://www.aaskolnick.com/naswmav.htm Even when their research has been refuted by numerous other studies, they'll continue to quote it, as if it were still valid. What's worse is that they've gone to great pains to hide the serious side effects of TM. http://www.suggestibility.org/

Where's your research to prove your assertion? The consensus in the field is that health education classes about diet and exercise have positive benefits, which is backed up in the literature.

So, this study really compared against best practice. I don't see the problem. Comparing a new treatment against best practice is ethical when you are dealing with people's lives.

And they will probably teach about the evil, evil meat and fats and say nothing about fructose and other carbohydrates...

What?

Are you suggesting that the researchers made one of these errors?