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April 27, 2004

I Use Chicken Blood, Myself

New study finds: One-third of Americans are using prayer for healing. Coincidentally, almost three-thirds are also using modern medicine. The small portion that are not happen to be strangely incapacitated or dead, and thus their answers might be questionable anyway.

There is no clinical evidence that prayer improves health, but that's not the point of the study, says McCaffrey.

No, the point of the study is that people are all kinds of silly.

Doctors now recognize that acupuncture, massage and even some herbal treatments can be useful when combined with traditional medicine. This survey suggests that prayer may be another powerful tool that can't be ignored.

Um, no, it doesn't. See the part about "there is no clinical evidence that prayer improves health."