Last Updated on January 21, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Matthieu Ricard promoted «The Habits Of Happiness» on YouTube:
Matthieu Ricard reviewed in this talk part of the paper:
Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526201
And then later on released his best-selling book:
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill
But Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk with a PhD. in Cellular Genetics gave this talk on TED, which was then published on YouTube. And Ricard gave his talk not on an international science meeting.
The book «Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson
These two authors presented their best-selling book Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
on Google Talks, a talk which then was published on YouTube.
Richard R. Davidson
is an American psychologist and professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds and the affiliated non-profit Healthy Minds Innovations
And Daniel Goleman
is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist who wrote for twelve years for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences.
Richard R. Davidson und Daniel Goleman presented their book at «Google Talks» and not at an international science meeting. The talk was later on published on YouTube.
So is YouTube a the place where things are promoted which are voted out by scientists? What is your opinion about this topic? Write it in the comments below.