Is there a substantial body of evidence to support alternative medicine?
LD: There is a substantial body of evidence, but it also is lacking, in degree, because we tend to be too generous for alternative medicine as well. What I’m saying is, we need a single standard where we subject both conventional and alternative medicine to the same high standards. And those standards should include ruthless science and ruthless demand for efficacy of what we do. We ought to apply this to both sides of the fence, not just to one, as we often do. RD: Much of your work is in the area of intercessory prayer, and it appears that there some evidence supporting it. Could you talk more about that? LD: Currently we have 19 major, randomized, controlled clinical trials showing the power of intercessory prayer, 11 of which are statistically significant—meaning that you can’t explain away the results of these studies by saying it just happened according to chance. These studies are showing that something phenomenal is happening with how our consciousness, our minds, our intention
