Once again you are not reading what is written and only seeing what you want to see. Sad. Others, with more scientific minds, can certainly see the science in my posts about the mind/body relationship and how meditation, of which prayer is a form, can assist in the health or healing of an individual.
No, no, I DID see the science in your post. That's what I was talking about.
GunNuts brought up the placebo effect in an effort to pretend that religion is on the same playing field as science. You're defending the placebo effect with science, in response to someone poo-pooing GN's attempt to make a point. I saw your science.
TONS of discussions about the power of prayer refer to scientific studies, or studies that pretend to be scientific, or name-dropper anecdotes about this one time (famous name) became convinced of (insert woo), or unsourced tales of nameless people at unidentified universities who did something not peer reviewed...
But sciencey.
Because that's the route to gain knowledge about how things work. If they work.