sir_toejam
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Joined: April 2005
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| Quote | Oh, you mean:
Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer |
uh, yeah, that one... the one i already provided a link for earlier, along with a link to the review article in the same journal.
I moved the links to the first post to make them easier to find.
as to sandard, I guess you'd be surprised how non-standard many of these studies have been.
the STEP program has done a decent job of trying to utilize large numbers and double-blind groups.
| Quote | | nothing really clever here, not even informing one group that they would be prayed for |
hmm, i don't think you read the methods closely enough.
this is the first study to compare the double blind group to the group that actually knew it was being prayed for... and found significant results opposite to what one might expect for that group.
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