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"It's part of the responsibility of being a jingle dancer - to go where people are suffering and need healing."
- Star Downwind, a jingle dress dancer invited to perform a prayer & dance ceremony in southern Minneapolis at the sites of Good & Pretti's murders.
[Minnesota Public Radio, short article w/ 8 photos, good work, community repair & protection.]
#native #people #indigenous #customs #prayer #jingle #dance #healing #protection #tradition #memorial #site #mourning
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/02/jingle-dress-dancers-hold-healing-ceremonies-at-good-pretti-memorial-sites-in-minneapolis

A "jingle dress" dancer, wearing a gas mask. In the background are seen other native dancers.

getmisch

@GetMisch@masto.nyc · last week

hetsvrld

@esvrld@normal.style · 3 months ago

inshallah the rest of the amerikkkan ruling class will follow this war criminal into hell very soon. may billions now living witness unlimited genocide on the yakubean "nation" of united $$tates and its proxies 🙏 #prayer #civility #politics

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 3 months ago

Prayer's effects on health have been studied many times.

Small studies initially reported some benefit, but more rigorous studies found null or even harmful effects.

In sum, prayer seemed ineffective, recommending focus on more promising interventions: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000368.pub3

"Ten studies are included in this updated review (7646 patients). ...overall there was no clear effect of intercessory prayer on death... (6 RCTs, n=6784, random-effects RR 0.77 CI 0.51 to 1.16, I(2) 83%). For general clinical state there was also no significant difference between groups (5 RCTs, n=2705, RR intermediate or bad outcome 0.98 CI 0.86 to 1.11). Four studies found no effect for re-admission to Coronary Care Unit (4 RCTs, n=2644, RR 1.00 CI 0.77 to 1.30). Two other trials found intercessory prayer had no effect on re-hospitalisation (2 RCTs, n=1155, RR 0.93 CI 0.71 to 1.22).

...although some of the results of individual studies suggest a positive effect of intercessory prayer, the majority do not and the evidence does not support a recommendation either in favour or against the use of intercessory prayer. We are not convinced that further trials of this intervention should be undertaken and prefer to see resources ...used to investigate other questions in health care." — "Ten studies are included in this updated review (7646 patients). ...overall there was no clear effect of intercessory prayer on death... (6 RCTs, n=6784, random-effects RR 0.77 CI 0.51 to 1.16, I(2) 83%). For general clinical state there was also no significant difference between groups (5 RCTs, n=2705, RR intermediate or bad outcome 0.98 CI 0.86 to 1.11). Four studies found no effect for re-admission to Coronary Care Unit (4 RCTs, n=2644, RR 1.00 CI 0.77 to 1.30). Two other trials found intercessory prayer had no effect on re-hospitalisation (2 RCTs, n=1155, RR 0.93 CI 0.71 to 1.22). ...although some of the results of individual studies suggest a positive effect of intercessory prayer, the majority do not and the evidence does not support a recommendation either in favour or against the use of intercessory prayer. We are not convinced that further trials of this intervention should be undertaken and prefer to see resources ...used to investigate other questions in health care."

Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de replied · 3 months ago

Notably, some of the investigators had "a prior belief in the positive effects of #prayer" (Benson and Byrd) and nonetheless found plenty of null results, or results that hovered on either side of the null (p. 16, 👆).

🔓 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7034220/pdf/CD000368.pdf

#religion #health #cogSci #stats

“The Benson 2006 and Byrd 1988 studies were undertaken by researchers with a prior belief in the positive eﬀects of prayer. The beliefs of the researchers in the other trials are not clear.”

Roberts, L., Ahmed, I., Hall, S., & Davison, A. (2009). Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009(2), CD000368. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000368.pub3 — “The Benson 2006 and Byrd 1988 studies were undertaken by researchers with a prior belief in the positive eﬀects of prayer. The beliefs of the researchers in the other trials are not clear.” Roberts, L., Ahmed, I., Hall, S., & Davison, A. (2009). Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009(2), CD000368. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000368.pub3

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