Long awaited medial study questions the power of prayer

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Long awaited medial study questions the power of prayer

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html

"patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms..."

Now this is really interesting, because like I said in my introduction post I was under the impression that prayer actually had beneficial health effects which I attributed to the placebo effect. To find out that it makes no difference, and furthermore can actually make the situation worse, is kind of an eye opener.

 


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This I didn't expect.

This I didn't expect.

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Vastet wrote:This I didn't

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This I didn't expect.

Someone is screwing with us here, surely?

I don't think he is the Paisley.... but... um....

 

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Enough.

You people are making me crazy. I am changing my name. Puta que paril.


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paisleyartmachine wrote:You

paisleyartmachine wrote:

You people are making me crazy. I am changing my name. Puta que paril.

I'm really sorry, PaisleyArt, I was totally not going to buy into any of this suspicion business but I couldn't resist when you just cited the exact same study cited by the "other" Paisley in IIRC his first week here too. Too too uncanny to resist...

.. as you were.

 

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You have got to be kidding

You have got to be kidding me.

It must be a miracle.

Proof that god exists, right? (and if this statement makes you pause, please look up the definition of Joke in the Miriam Webster Dictionary.)

 


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Somebody do me a favor and

Somebody do me a favor and explain to me what this guy Paisley was doing... so that I can NOT do that, and stop all of the speculation.


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Somebody do me a favor and explain to me what this guy Paisley was doing... so that I can NOT do that, and stop all of the speculation.

 

Read his[?] posts

 

http://www.rationalresponders.com/user/paisley/track

 

 

 


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what i find odd, is i SWEAR

what i find odd, is i SWEAR ive seen your avatar before... (although not necessarily Paisley) Yay, Deja Vu!

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Paisley was your typical

Paisley was your typical evangelical type that took off not too long ago. I can't see him having posted this article though. For one, it goes against his arguments. For another, it's more than 3 years old. He joined much more recently.

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paisleyartmachine wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html

"patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms..."

Now this is really interesting, because like I said in my introduction post I was under the impression that prayer actually had beneficial health effects which I attributed to the placebo effect. To find out that it makes no difference, and furthermore can actually make the situation worse, is kind of an eye opener.

 

 

Wait another month, and there will be a a study advocating prayer. It seems that every time I flip open a health magazine or health news, there is something about this, for or against it.

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Somebody do me a favor and explain to me what this guy Paisley was doing... so that I can NOT do that, and stop all of the speculation.

He was a dickwad who posted extremely lengthy videos and then refused to agknowledge arguments against them. "You must not have watched the video!" was is oft-repeated reply against any and all arguments. He posted and reposted nearly identical topics so we could beat a dead horse with him. No argument could phase him. I think he was constructed in a government lab to be the ultimate theist: obstinate, illogical, rude and refusing to recognize the importance of evidence. He has actually denounced all scientific evidence as just being a kind of dogma.

In my opinion he was one of the worst posters that this site has ever seen. By unfortunate coincidence you have his name. I don't think you are him though. He was such an extreme fucktard that I think we would have been sure by now if you were him. I wouldn't worry about acting like him. Few people could pull of the kind of stuff that he could.

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Jormungander wrote:

paisleyartmachine wrote:

Somebody do me a favor and explain to me what this guy Paisley was doing... so that I can NOT do that, and stop all of the speculation.

He was a dickwad who posted extremely lengthy videos and then refused to agknowledge arguments against them. "You must not have watched the video!" was is oft-repeated reply against any and all arguments. He posted and reposted nearly identical topics so we could beat a dead horse with him. No argument could phase him. I think he was constructed in a government lab to be the ultimate theist: obstinate, illogical, rude and refusing to recognize the importance of evidence. He has actually denounced all scientific evidence as just being a kind of dogma.

In my opinion he was one of the worst posters that this site has ever seen. By unfortunate coincidence you have his name. I don't think you are him though. He was such an extreme fucktard that I think we would have been sure by now if you were him. I wouldn't worry about acting like him. Few people could pull of the kind of stuff that he could.

 

You wouldn't say that if you watched the video.

 

Which you obviously didn't.

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At last I get the joke ClockCat

 

I sort of thought you must've been seriously talking about something...

The dude must have been a freak if he's still echoing around in here.

Theists. The more dogmatic ones are so similar it's like they were made by machine.

 

 

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Atheistextremist wrote: I

Atheistextremist wrote:

 

I sort of thought you must've been seriously talking about something...

The dude must have been a freak if he's still echoing around in here.

Theists. The more dogmatic ones are so similar it's like they were made by machine.

 

 

Aww, Paisley was alright really. Well, at least a fair bit smarter than he sounds as of our recollection.

But he did create a lot of threads, and he peeved a lot of people with the one line 'you obviously didn't read/watch/listen therefore have no place commenting' retort which he used liberally and, most would probably agree, often fallaciously.

 

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