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Prayer and meditation You read in a magazine that 鈥渘onphysical treatments such as meditation and prayer have been shown to be effective in controlled scientific studies for such ailments as high blood pressure, insomnia, ulcers, and asthma.鈥� Explain in simple language what the article means by 鈥渃ontrolled scientific studies.鈥� Why can such studies provide good evidence that meditation is an effective

treatment for high blood pressure?

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(a) The variation don't exist by chance.

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鈥淣onphysical treatments such as meditation and prayer have been shown to be effective in controlled scientific studies for such ailments as high blood pressure, insomnia, ulcers, and asthma.鈥�

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The observed variations does not exist just by chance. There is no possibility that variation occur. The changes found are important and they can be linked with treatments.

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