Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Prayer Not Effective, And Could Even Be Harmful

The Tear Fund has just published a report Prayer in the UK claiming that prayer is effective and many people in the UK pray. The National Secular Society dismisses this report as an exercise in delusion about the power of prayer and evasion that prayer is declining in popularity.

Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society responded by pointing to the prestigious Harvard Medical School's report: Largest Study of Third-Party Prayer Suggests Such Prayer Not Effective In Reducing Complications Following Heart Surgery, which you can read: here.

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