More Prayer: Flyer, I think Goldberg's initial question (which is really more of a WTF than he's letting on) is intriguing in a three-bong-hit, bull-session kind of way. But such is the downfall of theology that it gets wrapped up in itself trying to create a palatable answer (viz. some of the letters he posts). Such is the difference between faith and knowledge of course, and I don't mean to knock faith. But prayer is a silly topic for medical study, since there is no actual mechanism to study. It's like astrology, wherein coincidence is taken as proof, at face value. As much as the Duke study might dress itself up, it's still a study of an instance of happenstance, nothing more.