This is woo, but it's motivated by political paranoia.

[Archae]

Right-wing political paranoia from 1955.

[longship]

1. Before Googling it, I'd say this is John Birch Society.

Let's see ...

Nope! I was wrong. But L. Ron Hubbard and his new so-called Church of Scientology was heavily involved in this. One should have known as soon as one reads how "mental hygiene" is a bad thing.

Read all about it HERE, the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act.

Woo, indeed. Whatever L. Drunkard Hubbard was involved in inevitably turns into woo, shit, rubbish, or whatever negative descriptor one chooses. After all, he came up with Xenu.

[Archae]

4. Not the John Birch Society, but a similar group.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unholy_three.png

[longship]

5. Aha! My Googling beat yours.

See the edit of my above post. Indeed, you are correct. Not John Birch. Would you believe L. Ron Hubbard?

Gotcha!

[Archae]

9. Hubbard was part of the opposition, because of his (then-new) cult.

Most of the opposition though was paranoid anti-Semitic and anti-Communist hysteria from far-right groups.

Nowadays, it's from the left, mostly people like Jenn McCarthy and Robert F Kennedy Jr.
And they have as much credibility as those old far-right groups.

[The Straight Story]

2. Hmmm Polio and monkey thing:

From the CDC:

Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet

SV40 is a virus found in some species of monkey.


SV40 was discovered in 1960. Soon afterward, the virus was found in polio vaccine.


More than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine from 1955 to 1963 when a proportion of vaccine was contaminated with SV40; it has been estimated that 10–30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of vaccine.


SV40 virus has been found in certain types of cancer in humans, but it has not been determined that SV40 causes these cancers.


The majority of scientific evidence suggests that SV40-contaminated vaccine did not cause cancer; however, some research results are conflicting and more studies are needed.


Polio vaccines being used today do not contain SV40. All of the current evidence indicates that polio vaccines have been free of SV40 since 1963.

Additional Facts

In the 1950s, rhesus monkey kidney cells, which contain SV40 if the animal is infected, were used in preparing polio vaccines. Because SV40 was not discovered until 1960, no one was aware in the 1950s that polio vaccine could be contaminated.


SV40 was found in the injected form of the polio vaccine (IPV), not the kind given by mouth (OPV).


Not all doses of IPV were contaminated. It has been estimated that 10–30 million people actually received a vaccine that contained SV40.


Some evidence suggests that receipt of SV40-contaminated polio vaccine may increase risk of cancer. However, the majority of studies done in the U.S. and Europe which compare persons who received SV40-contaminated polio vaccine with those who did not have shown no causal relationship between receipt of SV40-contaminated polio vaccine and cancer.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8pUR6KX_Vq8J:www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/updates/archive/polio_and_cancer_factsheet.htm+cdc+polio+cancer+fact+sheet&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

[JaneyVee]

3. Wow. A far right all women anti communist group based in L.A.

Also anti Semitic it appears. More proof that the far right has been crazy for a loooong time.

[GReedDiamond]

6. They forgot one, it should be THE UNHOLY FOUR...

[The Straight Story]

7. Posters like that would make me want to use it

[GReedDiamond]

8. Exactimundo...that's how I got started...

...except, I never got 'sass'nated, so I guess it's now...

"ASSASSIN OF GEEZERS"

...so when I finally do croak, they can blame it on the demon weed!

[6000eliot]

21. Sigh. I miss Wild-Mad THRILLS.

[GeorgeGist]

19. Bull effing shit.

http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/index.htm

[Rex]

11. Russian born doctors infiltrated and were creating cringing hordes of zombies

that would drink all our fluoridated water and take all our polio serum.

[freshwest]

12. Hey, you forgot Obama, Destroyer of Worlds. No kidding, the stuff is intense.

Personally, I enjoy woo.

So long as it's not fear inducing or hate mongering. Because there is an agenda behind those, when they go for the gut.

Other than that, woo hoo!

[Gravitycollapse]

13. We must maintain purity of our precious bodily fluids!

[Skittles]

14. your obsession with WOO is creepy

[Archae]

15. Well, I do have this aversion to fraud that can kill people, including little kids.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

17. What is WOO? I missed it

[Archae]

18. Woo = quackery.

It can be used as a word to describe stuff like "psychics," ghosts, etc.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Congressman Hoffman would be at home

In the modern tea party

[hootinholler]

20. Zombies cower?

Who knew, I thought they are dangerous.