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Flying Carpets and Scientific Prayers: scientific experiments claiming that distant intercessory prayer produces salubrious effects are deeply flawed

Article Abstract:

The article identifies and examines methodological problems in several studies that find distant intercessory prayer promotes healing and health. Aside from outright fraud, these include lack of controls, differences in operational definitions, and the effects of probability in outcomes.

Author: Shermer, Michael
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Health aspects, Column, Comparative analysis, Science, Scientific method, Prayer, Spiritual healing

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(Can't get no) satisfaction

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History and science are necessary for understanding the level of happiness and satisfaction. Happiness is equated with satisfaction than pleasure as the pursuit of pleasure leads to a never-ending dissipated treadmill that eventually leads to misery.

Author: Shermer, Michael
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2007
United States, Analysis, Influence, Happiness, Satisfaction, Satisfaction (Psychology), Humanistic psychology

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God's number is up: among heap of books claiming that science proves God's existence emerges one that computes a probability of 67 percent

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Faith is what religious enterprise was always about until science became the preeminent system of natural verisimilitude. One of the most innovative works in this genre is 'The Probability of God'.

Author: Shermer, Michael
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Supernatural beings, Existence of God

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