These traits, then, acting individually and collectively, supply the healing power. A report published in the February 1999 British medical journal Lancet challenges previous studies of the role of religious faith in the recovery from illness. The report s authors concluded that studies suggesting a measurable relationship between faith-focused intervention and recovery were so poorly designed that no supportive claims were justified. We are therefore left without clear answers. The placebo effect is one possibility.
Chance is another.
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