Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Allan Chumak 'charges' water through the screen
In 1989 the former journalist Allan Chumak began appearing silently on Soviet television, waving his hands to 'charge' water, creams and newspapers placed before television sets with healing energy.
1989 CE · 55.82, 37.61 · status: claim
The account
Millions set out jars of water in front of their screens. The broadcasts were stopped in 1990 after protests from doctors, but 'charged' products remained popular in the 1990s. The Russian Academy of Sciences' commission against pseudoscience later named him as an example of quackery.
The sceptical view
No mechanism or controlled evidence supports any effect.