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Comment author: mattnewport 26 July 2010 08:06:52PM *  3 points [-]

Studies also show that prayer does have a powerful healing effect - but only if the subject knows that they are being prayed for.

Citations please. The only well controlled study I know of found the opposite - subjects who knew they were being prayed for suffered more complications than those who did not.

Comment author: Skepxian 26 July 2010 08:26:50PM 0 points [-]

I actually found it several years ago through an atheist site which was using it as evidence that prayer had only a placebo effect, so I'm afraid I don't have a citation for you just at the moment. I'll see what I can do when I have time. My apologies.