Bertvan@aol.com writes
in message <bb.31e0aee.2649bb31@aol.com>:
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> Dr. Larry Dossey has conducted experiments where
> patients were unaware of who was being prayed for. Prayer was determined to
> have a statistically significant effect.
Could you be more specific? I couldn't find any published prayer
studies conducted by Larry Dossey, although I'm sure he reports
several in his popular books.
In http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/gary_posner/godccu.html
Gary Posner reviews a 1988 study and finds several problems that
could account for the very slight statistical significance
allegedly measured. Have there been studies since conducted
with better controls?
> Also the Princeton anomalies lab has determined that ESP has a
> tiny but consistently measurable effect.
Yeah, a whopping .02% of the time. Plus, they claim that the
affect is not limited by distance (effect is produced even when
experimenter is thousands of miles away); and that measured
deviation in random generation can actually occur from affects
in the *past* rather than present (effect occurs when experimenter
concentrates on Monday, even though actual experiement doesn't
take place until Friday). (What that means is that I can, right
now, corrupt all future experiments at the Princeton Anomalies
Lab by a mere act of will, skewing all results. There, I've
done it. :)
It wouldn't be responsibile to trust any of this until its been
reproduced.
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