You may already have heard about this story a few months ago. A company sold the military very very expensive (between $18-60k each) glorified dowsing rods claiming they can detect explosives. Not only has the fact that these are useless been revealed, but the guy who sold them has been charged for selling them. You'd think that if people didn't realize before all of this. that they were conned, surely, they'd know it now right? They'd stop relying on these useless devices to detect bombs right? Nope!
I tuned in to CBS news last night to watch this piece Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack (friend of an organization I'm affiliated with) was interviewed for and I was appalled to learn that they are still in use!!!
Here's the CBS story that aired last night (click for the video... ) and below is the NY Times piece about it from a couple months ago. Just in the short video you can get an idea for how absurd the claims are about these. A reasonable person would wonder how the heck these could work, but apparently none of those people were in positions of power.
I tuned in to CBS news last night to watch this piece Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack (friend of an organization I'm affiliated with) was interviewed for and I was appalled to learn that they are still in use!!!
Here's the CBS story that aired last night (click for the video... ) and below is the NY Times piece about it from a couple months ago. Just in the short video you can get an idea for how absurd the claims are about these. A reasonable person would wonder how the heck these could work, but apparently none of those people were in positions of power.
Originally posted by NYTimes
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