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0 pointsDiscourseFan1y ago0 comments

Praying to gods has a correlation with better medical outcomes, thats why they have chapels in hospitals. Same thing with visits from friends and families. Its not like everything can be solved by "advancing" technology.

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exe341y ago

nope, the evidence is pretty clear on prayers: they don't work.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2802370/#:~:text=We....

wizzwizz41y ago

The article you've linked describes multiple medical benefits of prayer. By "they don't work", do you mean "the observed benefits are explicable without divine intervention"?

exe341y ago

no I mean that they are not reproducible and don't show up in randomised controlled trials without intellectual dishonesty.

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exe341y ago

nope, the evidence is pretty clear on prayers: they don't work.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2802370/#:~:text=We....

wizzwizz41y ago

The article you've linked describes multiple medical benefits of prayer. By "they don't work", do you mean "the observed benefits are explicable without divine intervention"?

exe341y ago

no I mean that they are not reproducible and don't show up in randomised controlled trials without intellectual dishonesty.

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