Praying for the health of strangers who have undergone heart surgery has no effect, according to the largest scientific study ever commissioned to calculate the healing power of prayer.
[from The Times (of London) Online]
In other news:
• astrology is pretty much a pile of bullshit
• voodoo dolls don’t work
• fortune cookies are a conspiracy foisted on us by Global Fortune Cookie Enterprises, Inc.
• your birthday wish will not come true if you blow out all the candles on the first try
• stepping on a crack has no affect on the state of your mother’s back health
• buildings that skip from the 12th floor to the 14th still have a 13th floor
• four-leaf clovers are no more lucky than the ordinary kind
• the man in the moon is an illusion
• the face on Mars? ditto
• the Loch Ness Monster doesn’t exist
• Bigfoot is a college prank that’s gone on way too long
• ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids
• no such thing as the Bible Code
• the Da Vinci code? not so much either
• the reptilian aliens are not out to take over the planet (the greys are)
• Bill Gates will not pay you to forward mail
• you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
