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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (7882)9/7/2001 7:09:43 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to 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



To: cosmicforce who wrote (7882)9/9/2001 10:40:51 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 28931
 
This eliminates or at least reduces the placebo effect, which is the power of suggestion or positive thinking
Is this the only 3 studies on this subject? I think I have heard of others and that there may be a bias in the reporting of the results, even if the studies themselves were conducted properly.

TP


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