All of our recent discussion on Intelligent Design reminded me of the famous “Columbia Medical School Prayer Study.” Perhaps you recall that in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy, the Journal of Reproductive Medicne published a study that demonstrated that praying helped infertile women to conceive.
Many people were shocked at the conclusion and of course, this was right up the alley of the folks at the Skeptical Inquirer who dug down and deep and have quite an interesting expose which highlights false identities, doctors who aren’t doctors, insurance fraud, the bankrupt Adelphia Communciations, Master’s graduates in parapyschology from the John F. Kennedy University in California (quite a few steps below the credentials of the Discovery Institute’s personnel) and a scneario that better fits a soap opera than the review board of a prestigious journal and the faculty of an Ivy League University.
Posted by TangoMan at 07:41 PM