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  • One meta-study that examined ten double blind scientific studies on prayer involving 7800 participants found that "overall, there was no significant difference in recovery from illness or death between those prayed for and those not prayed for."

    Jeffrey Small: The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World Jeffrey Small 2011

  • One meta-study that examined ten double blind scientific studies on prayer involving 7800 participants found that "overall, there was no significant difference in recovery from illness or death between those prayed for and those not prayed for."

    Jeffrey Small: The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World Jeffrey Small 2011

  • Martin Robbins, who writes the Guardian's lay scientist blog, says that a comprehensive meta-study conducted by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of medical experts and others, noted that "the few adequate trials to have taken place were poorly reported or too small to draw conclusions from, and concluded that 'there is insufficient evidence to support or refute the use of manual therapy for patients with asthma'."

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • Martin Robbins, who writes the Guardian's lay scientist blog, says that a comprehensive meta-study conducted by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of medical experts and others, noted that "the few adequate trials to have taken place were poorly reported or too small to draw conclusions from, and concluded that 'there is insufficient evidence to support or refute the use of manual therapy for patients with asthma'."

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • Another meta-study at Syracuse University came to the same conclusions: "The effects of distant intercessory prayer are examined by meta-analysis, and it is concluded that no discernable effects can be found."

    Jeffrey Small: The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World Jeffrey Small 2011

  • Another meta-study at Syracuse University came to the same conclusions: "The effects of distant intercessory prayer are examined by meta-analysis, and it is concluded that no discernable effects can be found."

    Jeffrey Small: The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World Jeffrey Small 2011

  • Western experts long suspected this, but it took until 1994 for Lennart Devell of Studsvik EcoSafe in Sweden to conclude, in a meta-study published that year, that roughly twice as much was released than what the Soviets had claimed.

    Chernobyl and the Power of Myth Alexander R. Sich 2011

  • It's important to note that, because this is a meta-study that looked at studies with various measurements of relationships, there is not a specific threshold or number of friends (or lack thereof) that qualifies you as having adequate social contact.

    Friends With Health Benefits 2010

  • But a meta-study released this summer from researchers at Brigham Young University have determined the link is more direct than previously imagined.

    Friends With Health Benefits 2010

  • Shang's group's article was a meta-study of previously done research on homeopathy.

    Nightmare Advice on Allergies Steve Carper 2008

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