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    Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/3…

    Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.

    And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested.

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    • Where is your god now?ZOOP
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    • Geez, "Dr. Herbert Benson, a cardiologist and director of the Mind/Body Medical Institute near Boston, said that the findings were not the last word on the effects of so-called intercessory prayer."yurimon
    • were not the last word on the effects of so-called intercessory prayer." read peopleyurimon
    • it is so far, and we know organized religion kills countless millionsZOOP
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