Preface: I am not making this up.
A current GD thread on rape and sexual consent got me thinking about something I read in Time or Newsweek around 1987.
Assuming I’m remembering the incident correctly, a man would call women up and claim that he was a doctor. (I believe these were women who had recently had mammograms or some such, so it was suspected he had access to medical records).
He would claim they had tested positive for something life-threatening (cancer?), but that they could cure it by walking topless in public.
And apparently, some actually did.
(IIRC, he spouted some medical hocus pocus about shocking the system into generating curative hormones).
Does anyone else remember this? If so, does anyone know if they ever caught the guy? TIA.