From the "Well, Duh" department
Mar. 31st, 2006 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caffeineFirst of all, asking me if I want to ....
Ok, back on topic for a minute:
Aussie study find god hates you. Oh, I mean doesn't care. Oh, wait, maybe it is just that prayer does not help, since well neither does talking to the wall, which is about the same, except that people talking to the wall do not expect anything.
http://smh.com.au/news/world/secret-to-a-speedy-recovery-no-prayers-please/2006/03/31/1143441331996.html
EDIT:
Sorry, not an Aussie study, it was actually here in the US, which is amazing they have the balls to say it. I just read it in an Aussie paper. Which was actually a better article than from "God Weekly," er, I mean Time. "Science Fails to Disprove God" was there opening sentence? Huh? I did not think that it was science's job to disprove god. I thought it was a religions job to prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Like a dead god falling into the ocean. Which was good book by the way (from what I remember of it)
Ok, back on topic for a minute:
Aussie study find god hates you. Oh, I mean doesn't care. Oh, wait, maybe it is just that prayer does not help, since well neither does talking to the wall, which is about the same, except that people talking to the wall do not expect anything.
http://smh.com.au/news/world/secret-to-a-speedy-recovery-no-prayers-please/2006/03/31/1143441331996.html
EDIT:
Sorry, not an Aussie study, it was actually here in the US, which is amazing they have the balls to say it. I just read it in an Aussie paper. Which was actually a better article than from "God Weekly," er, I mean Time. "Science Fails to Disprove God" was there opening sentence? Huh? I did not think that it was science's job to disprove god. I thought it was a religions job to prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Like a dead god falling into the ocean. Which was good book by the way (from what I remember of it)
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Date: 2006-03-31 06:18 pm (UTC)From the NYT article on this study:
"In another of the study's findings, a significantly higher number of the patients who knew that they were being prayed for — 59 percent — suffered complications, compared with 51 percent of those who were uncertain. The authors left open the possibility that this was a chance finding. But they said that being aware of the strangers' prayers also may have caused some of the patients a kind of performance anxiety."
Heh. Clearly means god hates that 8% just a little bit more than the others.
http://tinyurl.com/e6c6e