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The article is pretty good about sticking to facts, but some sweeping statements such as about his contribution to health care are credulous and uncited. Article should include controversies about his beliefs or link to them. Personally, I know a physician who explained how Zinn had portrayed research as supporting mindfulness by misrepresenting the results (it was not the primary condition, there were other interventions that probably explained the results). But that's just gossip. My concern is that, while meditation has its virtues, it is over-hyped as a medical treatment. I am not a knee-jerk skeptic, by the way, I meditate and have training in Vipassana and Zen. [[User:Bobsterz|Robert A. Yourell]] <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 03:19, 30 January 2011 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
The article is pretty good about sticking to facts, but some sweeping statements such as about his contribution to health care are credulous and uncited. Article should include controversies about his beliefs or link to them. Personally, I know a physician who explained how Zinn had portrayed research as supporting mindfulness by misrepresenting the results (it was not the primary condition, there were other interventions that probably explained the results). But that's just gossip. My concern is that, while meditation has its virtues, it is over-hyped as a medical treatment. I am not a knee-jerk skeptic, by the way, I meditate and have training in Vipassana and Zen. [[User:Bobsterz|Robert A. Yourell]] <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 03:19, 30 January 2011 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Place of birth? Education? ==

Both pretty standard for biographical articles, especially the latter for one working in an academic field.

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Wife: Myla Her parents: Roslyn and Howard Zinn Children:Will, Naushon, Serena His parents: Sally and Elvin Kabat Source: Gesund durch Meditation (page:330 and 331) german translation of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness. I do not know the pages there, but should be in a cheapter Thanks or something like this. --Cyrus Grisham 17:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article is pretty good about sticking to facts, but some sweeping statements such as about his contribution to health care are credulous and uncited. Article should include controversies about his beliefs or link to them. Personally, I know a physician who explained how Zinn had portrayed research as supporting mindfulness by misrepresenting the results (it was not the primary condition, there were other interventions that probably explained the results). But that's just gossip. My concern is that, while meditation has its virtues, it is over-hyped as a medical treatment. I am not a knee-jerk skeptic, by the way, I meditate and have training in Vipassana and Zen. Robert A. Yourell —Preceding undated comment added 03:19, 30 January 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Place of birth? Education?

Both pretty standard for biographical articles, especially the latter for one working in an academic field.