No benefit of prayer after surgery found
Many newspapers, including The Boston Globe, have an article describing a study recently published in the American Heart Journal.Praying for other people to recover from an illness is ineffective, according to the largest, best-designed study to try to examine the power of prayer to heal strangers at a distance.This study won't change anyone's mind on the power of prayer. People who believe prayer helps will think this study is flawed. People who don't believe prayer helps will say "See? Told ya so".The study of more than 1,800 heart bypass surgery patients found that those who had other people praying for them had as many complications as those who did not. In fact, one group of patients who knew they were the subject of prayers fared worse.
Here's what I say: this isn't a subject for scientific study.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 9:49 AM
2 Comments:
This wasn't a study on genuine prayer. (How in the world would that be done, anyway?!)
It was a study on the psycho- and physiological effects on the study subjects.
Something like that.
On the other hand, praying for someone's death is 100% effective. However, it sometimes takes six or seven decades before the desired results come about.
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