Hi Joe,

Parawissenschaften = all those stuff some people see as science, but is no science, like parapsychology, astrology, ...

GWUP = Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften = Society for scientific research of para-sciences (roughly translated)
And in defendance of the German language:
American acronyms are at least as awful as German acronyms!!!

Andreas (Defender of the German language)