"Beliefs such as creationism or astrology aren't immune to science, they are merely wrong. Take the tale of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian yogi (and physics graduate) who taught transcendental meditation and won a global following after the Beatles joined his Academy of Meditation in India. Maharishi claimed that transcendental meditation gave practitioners access to the 'quantum field of cosmic consciousness'. This, he said, was identical to SU(5), the model physicists were then investigating in their search for a grand unified theory. Sadly for cosmic consciousness, real experiments later falsified SU(5)."-- Amanda Gefter, joining us in laughing at all the meditators who - for fucking decades - have been spreading this goofy charlatan's nonsense (Hello, Paul McCartney!) unaware their own stupidity is one of the many Signs Of The Times.
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