For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.

The pen-and-paper questionnaires were distributed to students at the beginning of lessons and collected at the end.

Obviously you are over-emphasizing your idioticy to rationalize your idioticy that you cant accept. Quite a pathetic way to survive.

the abutters on a street or a river