From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 07:39:27 MST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Finney
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:12 PM
>
> http://wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer.html is about
> experiments by Elizabeth Targ, daughter of well known
> parapsychologist Russell Targ, which seemed to show that
> prayer could induce healing. The first page may be annoying
> to those of us with a skeptical bent, but if you read on the
> article goes in an entirely different direction, with some
> astonishing revelations as it develops.
>
> In the end it is a sad, moving and revealing story of the
> collision between science and the search for a justification
> of faith. It appears that Ms. Targ's results have been
> widely misinterpreted, and this article will be an important
> rebuttal for any future cases where her results are presented
> at face value.
I read this last night and I have to agree that it's one of the best
pieces of short journalism of its type I've read in a long time. The
way the author structured the piece in a number of dimensions to address
the different subjects involved -- scientific, biographical, emotional
-- was truly masterful. The way the piece maintained a good
journalistic tone throughout the twists and turns was brilliant!
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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