Scientific Study Looks at Praying COVID-19 Away

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

With most health experts saying a coronavirus vaccine is likely more than a year away, a cardiologist at the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute has begun a scientific study to see if something called “remote intercessory prayer” might initiate God to heal those afflicted with the virus.

On Friday, Dr. Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy launched the four-month prayer study, which involves 1,000 coronavirus patients who are in intensive care. While none of the patients’ prescribed standard care will be changed, 500 will be prayed for and 500 won’t be, and neither group will know about the prayers.

Half of the randomly-selected patients will receive prayers from five religious denominations: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. According to NPR, the study will measure progress by monitoring individual patients’ organ heath, need for ventilators, and how many live.

Lakkireddy said that members of his research team “all believe in science” before going on to expound extensively on their faith: “If there is a supernatural power, which a lot of us believe, would that power of prayer and divine intervention change the outcomes in a concerted fashion? That was our question.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/scientific-study-looks-at-praying-away-covid-19-993286/

[tanyev]

1. They can't think of any better way to spend their time and funding???

[Goodheart]

2. Jeezus fucking christ.

This has been several times before (hint: prayer is worthless).

As if those Jews in the railcars on their way to Auschwitz didn't know the answer.

A fucking waste of money. Go cure some patients instead of dabbling in shit that doesn't need to "researched".

[rurallib]

3. Just thinking this morning that we haven't heard a bunch of religious BS claims

about people being saved by prayer. Knew it was too good to be believed.

[Victor_c3]

4. I think they're trying to figure out if there is a god or not

Or at least if there is a god who cares about us down here on earth.

For what it’s worth, I’m a very staunch atheist

[Newest Reality]

5. :)

[Chainfire]

6. Which god will they be praying to?