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Vinton D. Tompkins
Ayur-Ved News Service Livingston Manor, NY

JAMA. 1992;267(10):1339.

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To the Editor.

—With regard to the report on Maharishi Ayur-Veda in your October 2, 1991, issue,¹ it seems to me that the indignation expressed was disingenuous. The original article on Maharishi Ayur-Veda published in the May 22/29, 1991, issue² clearly referred to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the TM program. One of its authors was described as president of the organization that trains physicians in Maharishi Ayur-Veda. And, in the October 11, 1990, letter submitted to JAMA's editors with the original article, the authors disclosed that they were consultants to a Maharishi Ayur-Veda organization.³ In light of this, JAMA's editors must have known before May about such a connection. Therefore, JAMA's October attack, predicated as it was on alleged deception, seems to me to have been unjustified.

I think your readers should know that our organization has always been straightforward in presenting Maharishi Ayur-Veda to the public. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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