Via the null device, Mayo researchers can’t prove power of prayer. No difference in outcome between cardiac patients unknowingly prayed for over six months and matched controls. “The study drew immediate criticism as an attempt to measure God’s will.” Perhaps S/He made sure not to listen to these particular entreaties in order to punish the blaspheming researchers? Duluth Tribune Naturally, if the recipient of prayer knows about it, it’s a different story. That’s called, of course, the placebo effect, an erroneously disparaging term about an erroneously discredited phenomenon that is behind a far greater proportion of the healing benefits of medical interventions than we are willing to concede…