http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_520524.html



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8652837.stm



What do you think about this ??

Not a whole lot. Color me skeptical.

Yoga (self-hypnotism) can control your body a lot, but not for 70 yrs.

Sue

If it looks like and smells like...

so, overweight people meditate too much?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof

I guess he must of gave up on his 70 year old vow of silence as well to tell everyone of his remarkable feat just like this poor unfortunate fellow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-isGzfYUZ4

Amen, that pretty much sums it up.

Another look:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/they_arent_doing_the_right_tes.php

Point being anyone can claim anything. Used to be reputable journalists would filter out the worse of the charlatans and cranks so you had to dig, subscribe obscure newsletters or magazines:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/01/monckton_in_nexus.php

Or visit certain backwater storefronts to find that sort of thing. Now there is so much bandwidth to be filled that virtually anything will make the cut.

Along the same lines -
They found Noah's Ark:
http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2010/04/fake_noahs_ark_found_on_mt_ara.php

Aliens captured:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/beware_the_trantaloids.php

He ate at McDonalds, and it's not food. lol

And I claim bogus.

Gods, I love the toenail lint that qualifies as reporters these days.