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I was looking online and i saw this..i would like to know what you think about this and how do you logically explain this study? Cardiac patients from the San Francisco General Medical Center were randomly divided using a computergenerated list into two groups. The names of the patients in the test group were given to a group of Christians who prayed for them while they were in the hospital. The intercessory prayer team members were chosen on the following basis: Born again Christians on the basis of John 3:35 Led an active Christian life on the basis of daily devotional prayer fellowship in a local Christian church The placebo group received no prayer. Neither the test nor the placebo group of patients knew if they were receiving prayer. Likewise the hospital staff doctors or nurses were blinded since they did not know which patient belonged to which group. ResultsStatistics were acquired from the prayer and placebo groups both before and after prayer until the patients were discharged from the hospital. There were no statistical differences between the placebo and the prayer groups before prayer was initiated. The results demonstrated that patients who were prayed for suffered less congestive heart failure required less diuretic and antibiotic therapy had fewer episodes of pneumonia had fewer cardiac arrests and were less frequently intubated and ventilated. source: Byrd R.C. 1988. Positive Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary Care Unit Population. Southern Medical Journal 81: 826829.

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