March 2, 2007

Prayer Study Suffers Another Blow

By ELYSE ASHBURN

A controversial study that claimed to demonstrate the efficacy of prayer in medicine has suffered yet another blow to its credibility, as one of its authors stands accused of plagiarism in another published paper.

Doctors were flummoxed in 2001 when Columbia University researchers published a study in The Journal of Reproductive Medicine that found that strangers' prayers could double the chances that a woman would get pregnant using in vitro fertilization. In the years that followed,

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