Issues July 11, 2016 Issue

Conclusions drawn from healings

Reprinted by permission. Jeffrey Rediger, The Washington Post,March 29, 2016

Note: Prior to pursuing medical studies, Dr. Rediger received a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. A frequent speaker and writer, he recently contributed this opinion piece for The Washington Post.

By Jeffrey Rediger

To doctors, events like the story [of a healing of a serious illness reenacted in a recent film] … are impossible to explain. Scientists call them “spontaneous remission” or “placebo responses.”

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