bah, I don't care if others pray for me... let them waste their time and breath all they want... if it makes them happy, who am I to take it away from them?
but there is, at least, one study where the "power of prayer" has been debunked and shown to have less effect than not praying (provided the patient knew others were praying for them):
but there is, at least, one study where the "power of prayer" has been debunked and shown to have less effect than not praying (provided the patient knew others were praying for them):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health...d=all&_r=0 Wrote:Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.
And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested.
Because it is the most scientifically rigorous investigation of whether prayer can heal illness, the study, begun almost a decade ago and involving more than 1,800 patients, has for years been the subject of speculation.
