Dark side of Meditation

[ThePaladin]

I read the article and it was woefully lacking in details of the study itself, like how it was set up, was there a control group, what their hypothesis was in the first place, etc. It appears they looked at prisoners who began meditating. Why not look at those monks who spend their lives in meditation? Might it be they had an idea, an opinion of meditating and the looked until they found "proof" to back up their opinion?

Is there a negative side to meditation? I doubt it.