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 | | From: | Lysander | | Subject: | Re: What do you think? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:51:45 -0800 |
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 | "Rob Duncan" writes:
> "graham" wrote in message
> news:_EjId.139117$8l.121633@pd7tw1no...
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>> "yowie" wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1c5c4769bc93a3c69896c3@dialerclub.com...
>>> In
>>> Posted to alt.flame.jesus.christ
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>>> Rob Duncan said...
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>>>> Double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled and peer reviewed studies
>>>> exist
>>>> proving prayer works.
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>>> Where?
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>> More to the point, what's a placebo for a prayer? As for the peers;
>> presumably a bunch of other godders!
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> Obviously these correspondents arent the usual ones Im accustomed to, but a
> "placebo for prayer" is no prayer at all,
And how do you know that those in the control group received *no
prayer at all*?
Hmmmmm......?
> as for "peer reviewers" those who
> are qualified to judge so, under the guidelines of scientific inquiry.
And you just take that on faith?
L.
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Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
Niels Bohr
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