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Soracco is one of 20 faith healers recruited for the study by Dr. Elisabeth Targ, clinical director of psychosocial oncology research at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. In the experiment, 20 severely ill AIDS patients were randomly selected; half were prayed for, half were not. None were told...
Twenty years ago, no self-respecting M.D. would have dared to propose a double-blind, controlled study of something as intangible as prayer. Western medicine has spent the past 100 years trying to rid itself of remnants of mysticism. Targ's own field, psychiatry, couldn't be more hostile to...
A handful of scientists have attempted to study the possibility that praying works through some supernatural factor. One of the most cited examples is a 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd at San Francisco General Hospital. Byrd took 393 patients in the coronary-care unit and randomly assigned half to...
I will speak today about the effects of science on our lives. But I will emphasize science in its most fundamental form, the process by which we make discoveries about the world--like the atom or the gene--that precede practical inventions. At its core, science is a way of...
I recently returned from two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. I had expected to find people embracing democracy and enjoying their newfound freedom. Instead, most yearned for the Communist days, when products were cheap. As Americans, we are frustrated to hear that...