Ms. Klein questioned why her library does not list studies, or data, showing the benefits of prayer in schools. She points out that since public school prayer was outlawed in 1962 there has been ample time for the religionists to gather data as to the value of prayer. Prayer and religion has never been proven, scientifically or otherwise, to be of value to humankind.
Nothing fails like prayer.
Since prayer and religion are so closely united I believe the following four studies show that both prayer and religion are detrimental to society. Even so the Catholic schools did not fare well. McLoughlin compares, for example, the prison population by religious denomination with the population in the state at large, i.e., per capita. Protestants fared better than Roman Catholics. Most of the religionists had mental problems from mild neurosis to very impaired.