Indian holy man claims to have gone 70 years with no food or water...doctors have him under study right now.

But not adequately. From what I read, they are letting him leave the facilities unchaperoned! Before anyone with half a brain can take his claims seriously, they need to put him under a closer, sustained observation.

Breatharians and their ilk have a history of fraud.

I just heard about this and hadn't been following it terribly close..I think I will now. It should be interesting to see how it all pans out.

I watched an episode on TLC about this young girl with Pica Disorder. She eats about 25 lbs of chalk a year! 3 sticks a day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TN1_EgYdfU&feature=fvsr

Sanal Edamaruku, the association’s secretary general, told the Mail: ‘I asked to be allowed to send an independent team to survey the room where this test is taking place, but I was repeatedly turned down. It is ridiculous to ask people to believe that any man can go 15 days, let alone 70 years, without food or water. Seven decades: Mr Jani claims he had a religious experience as a teenager
‘Dr Shah has been in charge of three similar investigations over the past ten years, and he has never allowed independent verification.

'In 2000, he was asking for funds to investigate a man he claimed got his energy from the sun, just like plants do.‘In 2003, he even approached NASA for funds to investigate Mr Jani, claiming astronauts might benefit from the research. This particular hospital, led by this particular doctor, keeps on making these claims without ever producing evidence or publishing research.’Mr Edamaruku is convinced that Mr Jani must have had access to food and water at the hospital, and does not believe that he was kept under strict supervision around the clock. He says that whenever the Rationalist Association has investigated individuals making similar claims, all have been exposed as frauds.