Following yesterday's post:
A trial reported in an article in today's New Scientist suggests that intercessory prayer is at best ineffective and at worst puts stress on to those who "know" they're being prayed for.
I don't think faith has been discussed though.
(For those who can't get the full article, in a nutshell - those who didn't know whether they were being prayed for (due to the double-blind nature of he test) did equally well whether they were active or placebo group, but those who were assured of prayer had worse healing rates.)
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Angela reminds me that there have been several previous studies showing that in fact prayer is effective for those who need healing. Unfortunately we don't have the references to hand.
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