Prayer Does Not Help Heart Patients

mu22le writes "A recent study conducted by the Duke University Medical Center on 700 patients, found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. Researchers emphasized their work does not address whether God exists or answers prayers made on another's behalf. This result seems to contradict a previous study by the same authors that reported "cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone"."

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Not what Tony was told.

[dave-tx]

Article is contrary to what they said on The Sopranos last night. Too bad Aaron Aarkaway didn't have one of his narcoleptic episodes while he was standing there. That would have been funny.

How the GOP Became God's Own Party

[Anonymous Coward]

Washington Post: Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/04/01/AR2006040100004.html?sub=AR

Re:Prayer may not be for the patient

[TheLoneCabbage]

The point is that it doesn't cost you anything, and may even benefit you in a practical sense. (ie community, shared values, traditions binding generations)

By saying this I'm not implying my religion, a religion, or any religion.
I'm also excluding radicals.

All that sayed, if you find a blief system that makes your life better in the here and now, and gives you the .00001% chance of having G_d hear you, you win.