It's A Mad, Mad World

I know it's April Fool's Day but the following, while a joke in itself, is not phony. The award for the most useless study, EVER, goes to...drumroll please...whether or not the power of prayer has any impact on the recovery of bypass surgery patients. The study is being called the largest of its kind and its findings are disappointing. It seems that the power of prayer does not have a positive impact and, in fact, those that were being prayed for fared worse. The study can't find any "clear explaination" for it. Although, the following may shed some light on it:

"One caveat is that with so many individuals receiving prayer from friends and family, as well as personal prayer, it may be impossible to disentangle the effects of study prayer from background prayer," Manoj Jain of Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, another author of the report.

The authors said one possible limitation to their study was that those doing the special praying had no connection or acquaintance with the subjects of their prayer, which would not usually be the norm.

Yes. That must be it.

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