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A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
What Is Woo Boo?
Woo woo is a term for unconventional beliefs regarded as having little or no scientific basis. It's believed to have originated in the 19 eighties, really in imitation of the wailing sounds that ghosts would make in some of these older movies when the ghost would go with the white sheet over them. The term actually originated in tn eighties. When i wanon pharmocitical industry in the late nineties, the term i then used was quackery. And all of a sudden peoples started referring to these things as wer we ooe.
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