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by exe34 585 days ago
nope, the evidence is pretty clear on prayers: they don't work.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2802370/#:~:text=We....
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wizzwizz4 584 days ago
The article you've linked describes multiple medical benefits of prayer. By "they don't work", do you mean "the observed benefits are explicable without divine intervention"?
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exe34 584 days ago
no I mean that they are not reproducible and don't show up in randomised controlled trials without intellectual dishonesty.
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