What's the craziest fucking woo you've ever heard?

[LeftishBrit]

36. As regards woo that I've come across directly...

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well, if people know that you work in psychology, you do get treated to the wilder fringes of theories of extrasensory perception; but I think the most extreme and certainly most dangerous woo that I've seen is the faith-healing that a couple of our local churches do on the streets of Oxford:

http://www.staldates.org.uk/content.asp?pageRef=463

I first heard about this from a couple of friends who saw them in action, starring the 'healing' of a man who rose from his wheelchair, supposedly cured of paralysis. My friends reckoned that he was a fairly obvious fraud. We considered informing the police about all this, but then found that it was being done quite openly and legally. Amazing what people can get away with!

As regards woo available on the Internet, I was going to propose cassiopaea.org, but I think the Viewzone forum beats it:

http://cnufos.ning.com/forum