Turns out that religious people are wasting their time praying for sick people. Research in the U.S. followed 1,800 heart patients at six different medical centres. Patients were split in to three groups of 600 and Christian groups did the praying. One group was prayed for, and told they were being prayed for, another was prayed for, but only told that they might be being prayed for, and the final group wasn’t prayed for at all, but was told it was a possibility. The group who was being prayed for, and knew it, fared the worst, with more complications within 30 days than either of the other two groups.