The story of the magnetic boy has taken off all over the internet. You can read The New York Post version here.
It is infuriating that this standard parlor trick is treated as a miracle. Here is a video of James Randi exposing a similar claim from China:
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Randi is still amazing. And just recently, he gets kudos and corroborated from 60 minutes, which aired a scathing investigative report against quack and money grubbing fake healer john of god in Australia.