Rixie comments on How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rixie 24 July 2013 12:38:30AM 4 points [-]

I read about a study like that, in which Christians prayed for people to recover from cancer. There was barely any difference between the patients that weren't prayed for, the patients that were prayed for and knee that they were being prayed for, and the patients that didn't know that they were being prayed for.

Comment author: Tintinnabulation 01 December 2014 09:09:41PM 1 point [-]

I recall the same study - and I seem to remember that the patients who knew they were being prayed for did a bit worse.