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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: cosmicforce who wrote (7882)9/7/2001 7:09:43 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
I'll start with the oldest one, as it is the easiest to find critiques of.

>>In 1988, Dr. Randolph Byrd conducted a similar study at San Francisco General Hospital involving patients with heart attack or severe chest pain. He found that patients receiving prayer did much better clinically than those who did not.<<

Much better? There was a couple of percent difference in several categories that were inter-related. This was not statistically significant at all. Also, there were issues in that prayers from family members and friends not part of the experiment were not controlled.

See a scathing critique at
infidels.org
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