From Scott Adams‘ The Dilbert Blog comes an entry about Praying for Sick People, pointing out a study “to assess the benefits of praying for heart bypass patients. It turns out that that the prayed-for group didn’t do any better than the non-prayed-for people. In fact, the people who knew they were being prayed for actually did a little worse.” [emphasis mine]
Meanwhile, wife of recovering film critic Roger Ebert is asking us, in this entry in her husbands blog, “to pray for Roger during his period of recovery and to visualize him being enveloped in healing light. ”
I want him to get better, so maybe I should skip the praying. It’s not worth the risk. She also suggests he’d want us to go to the movies. Nobody has done a study on that, as far as I know. Should be safe.