> I read some time ago that there were made emperical tests with groups > that were compared. One group of patients got the prayers of a group of > people, the other not. All that for a certain time. And the result was > that the recovery was better in the first group.
Well as someone who did postdoctoral work in a university pharmaceutical dept, I can assure you that there are loads of pitfalls for the unwary researcher into matters of health and 'cures'. Repeatability is a keyword, otherwise it's not a lot of use to the human race in general no matter how it works. If it just worked for one group on one day - well maybe they just got lucky and put most of the naturally quick healers in one group and the poor healers in the other? You might like to subscribe to the Skeptical Enquirer for a year or so :-) http://www.csicop.org/si/ The only downside is that after having results such as yours carefully tested and explained (debunked!) you'll have trouble having faith in anything for a while. Chris
