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Wiz Imp

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2. Largest Study of Prayer to Date Finds It Has No Power to Heal
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:30 AM
Yesterday
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-31-sci-prayer31-story.html
The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of prayer by strangers has found that it provided no benefit to the recovery of patients who had undergone cardiac bypass surgery.

In an unexpected twist, patients who knew prayers were being said for them had more complications after surgery than those who did not know, researchers reported Thursday.

The complications were minor, and doctors surmised that they could have been caused by the increased stress on patients worried that their conditions were so bad they needed prayers.

Father Dean Marek, a Catholic priest who was involved in the research, said he wasn’t surprised by the results.
“I am always a little leery about intercessory prayer,” said Marek, director of chaplain services at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “What we have in mind for someone else may not be what they have in mind for themselves.... It is clearly manipulative of divine action and personal choice.”

Your "faith" is completely contradicted by science. I trust science.

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