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____/ Gregory Shearman on Friday 01 Jul 2011 06:47 : \____
> On 2011-06-30, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My school taught me that an atom is a ball with electrons flying around
>> the outside of it in a linear fashion. That turned out to be inaccurate
>> too. Should I have launched a Jihad against all science because of that
>> fact?
>
> What is it now? A bunch of muons or gluons or whatever... I can't keep
> up.
>
>> Personally I don't believe in prayer, because I don't believe there's a
>> God to pray /to/, but I've heard enough doctors give up to know science
>> doesn't have all the answers, and I've seen enough people beat the odds
>> to know there's a lot to be said for mind over matter, even if they use
>> some dubious faith to encourage (or comfort) them. Who am I (or you) to
>> tell them they can't draw strength from their beliefs, however dubious?
>
> I'm of the opinion that prayer works like a placebo. There's an
> expectation of success and so this carries through with a positive
> attitude towards success... better than negativity.
The problem comes when people replace real treatment with this placebo, like when
the evangelicals have people throw away their pills (and then die) so that
they can do their charlatan gig and make a lot of money.
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