Prayer: Doesn't help the heart

[merphie]

I thought I would post this here because it was on CNN today.

Article

In a study involving 748 patients at eight centers slated for catheterizations, patients who, unbeknownst to them, were randomly assigned to be the subjects of multi-faith prayers before their procedures, fared no better than controls (un-prayed for) patients, reported Mitchell W. Krucoff, M.D. of the Duke Clinical Research Institute here and colleagues.

 

[BPSCG]

And PentaWater doesn't make your hair grow back.

And cows don't meow.

In other news...

 

[Cleon]

Re: Re: Prayer: Doesn't help the heart

And cows don't meow.

Really, when you get down to it, isn't "Mooo" just a low-pitched "meow?"

 

[Bentspoon]

Why Test

The real fallacy is that they tested it at all.

Since it is impossible to set up a controlled experiment, why embark on it.

It proves or disproves nothing. Payer/gods cannot be tested with controlled parameters so what is this?

from the article "fared no better than controls (un-prayed for) patients"

Un prayed for patients?? - really!!

I am a hardcore atheist and all my friends and family are quite aware of this and yet, I could not be in the control group.

Where do you go to find patients in a cardiac situation that are unprayed for - straight to Hell?????

Bentspoon