, Religion, in times of turmoil brings people together, and also has a healing quality to it. I call it a placebo effect. In clinical trials placebos are given as a control variable for the experiment, and many times the otherwise bogus treatment is actually shown to have a measurable effect. According to cancer.org “Even though placebos do not act on the disease, they seem to have an effect in about 1 out of 3 patients.”, For example, many Jehova’s Witness patients have died because they refuse blood transfusions as dictated by their religion. But for a lot of others, belief can be powerful medicine aside from diffuse displays of religious extremism. In Nigeria, religion has a big presence in health , Full Article Here :

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