Last Updated on March 12, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
3 % is funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
47 % funded by grants
https://centerhealthyminds.org/about/funding
The Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) was triggered by Richard Davidson PNAS paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
and Matthieu Ricards book Happiness:
We reviewed some of the papers and books which inspired us. But we where surprised what happened then. The MRIS is a private project on Peter Gamma s personal website. But after we started our website, we suddenly found a tremendous amount of marketing for physiological sensor devices and other components we are interested in. Was this all done for the MRIS?
50 % of the Center of Healthy Minds is funded by donors. The MRIS does not know anything about these donors. But has the tremendous amount of marketing we found in the web after we started our WordPress site something to do with the donors of the Center of Healty Minds, which we don t know?
If we look at this graph:
https://centerhealthyminds.org/about/funding
We can see that donors are funding 50 % of the center. And who is against the will of a funder who funds 50 % of a center? We don t know anything about the terms and conditions of these donors. And are the other funds publis funds which are 50 %. Does this mean, funders which are not the majority, have only the possiblity to retreat? And is there a large portion of the 50 % of donors funds from EEG and fMRI manufacturers? And has this something to do with the big effort in marketing we found everywhere in the web after we started our website?
And does this mysterious funder also fund Rob ter Horst and Laghsam in Zurich? And has this funder something to do with the tremendous amount of posts we triggered in the EEVBLOG, where we asked questions about a Texas Instruments EEG board:
Where these posters Texas Instruments sellers?
Is one of the donors and research grant funders Huffpost? And is Huffpost associated with a trust? Richard Davidson was interviewed by Arianna Huffington who created Huffpost:
Huffpost is an American online newspaper with regional editions in various languages.
And in case Huffington post is not a donor of Richard Davidson, do not Richard Davidsons donors and funders also read the Huffington post, and want to know, what Richard Davidson does with their money? And is the Huffington post scientifically objective, and is Arianna Huffington scientifically objective? All these questions are open and seem to remain open. Researchers which receive public fonds often answer these kind of questions, researchers with intransparent funding do not answer these question. Is this because they want to hide their conflict of interests?.