Dean Radin reports on a new intercessory prayer study
Two recent large-scale human clinical trials of intercessory prayer on cardiac patients failed to show any positive effects, which has dampened enthusiasm for research in that area. Here's a new study, involving distant prayer for bush babies, a cute monkey about the size of a squirrel, that showed a positive effect:
Lesniak, Karen T. The effect of intercessory prayer on wound healing in nonhuman primates. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. 2006; 12(5): 42-48. This study examined the effects of intercessory prayer (IP) on wound healing and related physiological and behavioral factors In 22 Garnett's greater bush babies, a monkey-like African primate. IP was employed in a randomized, double-blind study design to heal self-inflicted wounds in the animals. Animals receiving IP + tryptophan had a statistically significant wound reduction rate when compared to the tryptophan-only group. The IP group also demonstrated statistically significant increases in red blood cells, hemoglobin, and hematocrit, and a significant reduction in wound grooming and total grooming behaviors than the non-prayer group.
