June 18, 2004

Peer-Reviewed Paper on Pregnancy and Prayer May Soon Be Retracted

By LILA GUTERMAN

PRAYER, PREGNANCY, AND PRISON: Doctors were shocked in 2001 to read a study from two Columbia University researchers and a colleague who reported finding that praying for women seeking to become pregnant by in vitro fertilization could double their chances of success. Some clinical researchers were more shocked that the study, which they considered highly flawed, had been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Now comes a final surprise: One of the paper's authors pleaded guilty last month to

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