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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 5526204" data-attributes="member: 7808">Totally.  This is just one piece of anecdotal evidence, and can't be used to show how healing works worldwide.Unfotunately, just because Lourdes happens to be one of the biggest sites visited for miracle healing doesn't mean that we can take statistics from Lourdes very seriously.  The bottom line is that no one really knows what methods Lourdes uses to calculate how many visitors they get, what percentage are spontaneously healed, and what percentage are really healed.  The only thing we really know from these stats is that at Lourdes chances are low that you will be miraculously healed.  To conclude anything else from this data is assuming facts not in evidence. Yeah, but this information all comes from the Pope Benedict XVI (PBXvI).  Personally, I don't really trust any information that comes from PBXvI.  All of the numbers he's talking about only come from polling people within his religion.  He also has no way of verifying the information that people give him.  Even if we take his information as true at face value, it's not a good indicator for miracle healing wordwide, which encompasses many beliefs and other miracle outlets other than the ones PVXvI reports on.</blockquote>