 Religious belief in divine intervention does not depend on empirical evidence, that faith healing achieves an evidence-based outcome.Claims that "a myriad of techniques" such as prayer, divine intervention, or the ministrations of an individual healer can cure illness have been popular throughout history.There have been claims that faith can cure blindness, deafness, cancer, HIV AIDS, developmental disorders, anemia, arthritis, corns, defective speech, multiple sclerosis, skin rashes, total body paralysis, and various injuries.