Comments on: faith healing http://steelcityskeptics.net/2009/03/24/faith-healing/ Drinking Skeptically in Pittsburgh. For Pittsburgh atheists, agnostics, secular freethinkers and all unbelievers. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BillK http://steelcityskeptics.net/2009/03/24/faith-healing/#comment-304 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:45:09 +0000 http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/?p=481#comment-304 Forgive me for going slightly OT. I remember reading about a study of the efficacy of prayer a few years ago (I’m too lazy to look it up and give a link). The results were quite interesting. The outcomes of patients who were prayed for, and who were not aware that they were being prayed for, had statistically identical outcomes to the people who were NOT prayed for. But here’s the interesting part – the people who were prayed for and who knew that they were being prayed for, had significantly worse outcomes.

I’ve always thought that was quite telling.

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