woo-woo

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  • The bookstores are so full of New Age woo-woo and absurd self-help books that a parody just has to be good for a few laughs, especially since I remember my computerized psychic (closely related to the computerized poetry generator I described in the April 1988 _Analog_), which tempted me to hook my computer and a speech synthesizer to a 900 line. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • They didn't know it was going to involve woo-woo magic and alien brain-eating monsters, sure. —  Music To My Sorrow
  • In the unlikely event that Switters needed a reminder that the world was a woo-woo place, Domino's story of cherry resurrection would have filled the requirement. —  Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
  • "Well, I know from first-hand experience that the universe is a very woo-woo place, and that so-called consensual reality is not much more than the tip of the iceberg. —  Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
  • “No more woo-woo than your sensoceuticals.” —  Ms Longshot
 

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