Phenomenon: Almost all of the terrorist attacks in the world in the past five years have been perpetrated by religious fanatics. Theory: Religion fosters terrorism.

1. Phenomenon: Twenty patients with severe arthritis pain were prayed for by fifty people, and fourteen out of those twenty reported a significant lessening of pain. Theory: Prayer heals.

2. Phenomenon: Over the past year, two terminally ill cancer patients in Broderick Hospital were found to be cancer free. Theory: Treatment with a new type of chemotherapy works.

3. Phenomenon: Air pollution levels in San Francisco are at their highest levels in years. Theory: Increased numbers of SUVs being driven in the San Francisco area.