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  • Fake bomb detector seller who made £50m from sales is jailed

    Unbelievable: BBC News - Fake bomb detector seller James McCormick jailed

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    ADE 651 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    What is sickening is that this fraud has been known for many years. It's a dowsing rod, which can also be made from a wire coat hanger.

    The veteran Canadian-American magician and skeptic James Randi has publicly offered one million dollars to anyone who can prove the device's effectiveness as far back as October 2008.[29] Randi issued a statement calling the ADE 651 "a useless quack device which cannot perform any other function than separating naive persons from their money. It's a fake, a scam, a swindle, and a blatant fraud. Prove me wrong and take the million dollars."[18] According to Randi, nobody from ATSC has responded.[12]
    Last edited by USSWisconsin; 02 May 13,, 20:29.
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      Originally posted by USSWisconsin View Post
      ADE 651 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      What is sickening is that this fraud has been known for many years. It's a dowsing rod, which can also be made from a wire coat hanger.
      I had no idea. Its terrible that this had been going on for so many years.

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        in a just world, this f*ck should be forced to walk down a road implanted with IEDs and given his product to use.
        There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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          It's weird though. Yeah those bomb detectors were BS (and it would have been funny everytime we saw Iraqi's stamping their feet to build up static electricity if it wasn't so sad), but the US Army had our own set of "magic" equipment that didn't work. Now granted ours generally didn't work because they were TPE and hadn't been properly maintained in years, but still. It sucks when you are trying to explain to the Iraqi's that they are dying for no good reason, and they turn right back around and throw some of your own organization's shortcomings in your face and then keep right on doing what they were doing.

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