Author: Dariusz Jemielniak
Dariusz Jemielniak, PhD, is a full professor and head of Management in the Networked and Digital Environments (MINDS) Department, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland, and faculty associate at Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His recent books include Collaborative Society (2020, MIT Press, with A. Przegalinska), Thick Big Data (2020, Oxford University Press), and Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia (2014, Stanford University Press). His current research projects include online climate change denialism, anti-vaxxer internet communities, and bot detection.
Does Prayer Work?
Even though about 84 percent of the world population is religiously affiliated, the question of whether praying for someone can give that person some health benefits is still relatively understudied. This likely is because the topic is controversial: for religious people, applying quantified measures to the effects of prayer sounds blasphemous. Similarly, for secular ones, …
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