{"id":635,"date":"2009-11-08T05:26:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:26:42","slug":"pray-this-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-passed-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/pray-this-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-passed-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Pray this doesn\u2019t get passed | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write about how Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Kerry (D-MA) were trying to somewhat slimily <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-na-health-religion3-2009nov03,0,6879249,full.story\">slip a provision into the health care bill<\/a> about paying for prayer-based health services, but then wouldn&rsquo;tyouknowit, Steve Novella (who apparently does not need to sleep or eat or breathe) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theness.com\/neurologicablog\/?p=1190\">beat me to it<\/a>. Besides his take-down of the odd and wholly unrealistic beliefs of Christian Scientists, I&rsquo;ll note that is has been pretty definitively proven that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepdic.com\/prayer.html\">prayer doesn&rsquo;t work in healing<\/a>. So not only is this provision unconstitutional, it&rsquo;s just an all-around bad idea.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/20J_aVtcKD8hHnCWUbQsyTu41Y0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77e62_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/20J_aVtcKD8hHnCWUbQsyTu41Y0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77e62_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77e62_so2UshoilMQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3cyp0FgDS2-dbeAHpfpfs2KwFxY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77e62_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3cyp0FgDS2-dbeAHpfpfs2KwFxY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77e62_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77e62_sA0Ym4aNI1Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write about how Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Kerry (D-MA) were trying to somewhat slimily slip a provision into the health care bill about paying for prayer-based health services, but then wouldn&rsquo;tyouknowit, Steve Novella (who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/pray-this-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-passed-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}