Comments on: Bogus “dowsing rod bomb detector” still being sold from the UK

By: BOB DISDELL

BOB DISDELL — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:23:44 +0000

It does not work,it cant work.I was treated to a demo and guess what,it didnt detect anything.
The only comment I got from the operative was asking if he was getting warmer.
I just cant believe that anyone could believe in this,still it might make a decent coathanger.
Come on plod get these fraudsters banged up.

By: Adalberto Dominguez

Adalberto Dominguez — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:24:22 +0000

Hello !!

As a former Mex Navy Officer, I laughs a lot after I seen some “fresh men” training with DOWSING ROD BOMB DETECTORS at one of the containers yards where I use to work in a Mexican port.

I asked to the trainer (a friend from the Navy Academy) and he told me “this is worst like play coin flipping, I don’t know why somebody buy this stupids things”

Kind regards!

By: Dubious Dick

Dubious Dick — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:53:39 +0000

Great news folks:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/17/uk-iraq-britain-explosives-idUKTRE71G3H120110217

The man who said:
“Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives.

“I don’t care about Sandia or the Department of Justice or any of them,” General Jabiri said. “I know more about this issue than the Americans do. In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the world.”

Now for the rest. E.G.:Now for General Pierre hadji Georgiou, ProSec Lebanon (agents for ADE651 sales to Iraq)
Stelian Ilie at Mira Telecom, Romania, partners to James McCormick and the ADE651

McCormick has money stashed away in both these countries.

Also:
John Wyatt SDS Group UK agents for HEDD1
David Vollmar, Unival Germany. Took the discredited Sniffex from the US. Renamed it Sniffex Plus. Now renamed HEDD1 after the pressure.( Hasn’t Even detected DooDoo Once!)
Horizon Group India. Agents for the GT200
Gary Bolton, Global Technical. GT200

By: alan

alan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:11:48 +0000

“Jim McCormick was arrested on fraud charges”.
I wonder if he could invent a fraud detector (*). JR could then test it on Wall Street. Except that he might need a large stick, to beat it to death with.

(*). There is one already. An MRI scanner can reveal the difference between recalling a memory element (minimal brain activity). And the creation of a lie, (the whole thing lights up like a Christmas tree).

By: Dubious Dick

Dubious Dick — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:22:14 +0000

For those of you who still think dowsing works look up Ideomotor effect. Then get whoever you think can do it pronto onto the randi.org site and apply for the MDC.

Glad you taking an interest in the fake explosive detector story. Campaign started in this country on UKSKEPTICS by myself and Techowiz 2.5 years ago. Delighted at Newsnight coverage!!

Hopefully now we will see action against the protagonists. Anyone in Germany, are you doing anything about Vollmar? At least McCormick is on bail and may well be charged soon.

Anyone can please write to Bob Stuart an Patrick Mercer MPs encouraging them to dig deeper into why the Royal Engineers were involved in promoting this damn scam, and to get a full export ban and to get McCormick and Bolton in jail and their money confiscated soon!! DD

By: Niels

Niels — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:22:41 +0000

@Berber Anna I’m not saying *that* is good, but that also is not the responibility of the sellers. It’s perhaps not quite ethical to sell such nonsense, but before you’re going to spend millions on something you’d better make sure it is something worthwhile, don’t you think? Sucks to be them.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:53:58 +0000

Well as soon as i can find some land i can dig without incurring the wrath of a local landowner or council, i’ll put my wellies on and grab the spade. Watch this space ;p

By: Berber Anna

Berber Anna — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:27:08 +0000

Rob, he said that dowsing finds water underground, though. He didn’t say whether water in boxes is acceptable. Hence the digging.

Nigel, the prize is, as Rob said, open to anyone proving an ability that science deems unprovable. It’s even open to anyone who can prove that homeopathy has any effect other than as a placebo. Dowsing is definitely in range.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:26 +0000

@Nigel

Your girlfriend may not be claiming to be guided by faries, but she is claiming she can do something which is defined as impossible by mainstream science and has never been observed to work. Ever. That would be supernatural.

Randi’s prize is definitely open to her, and by the sounds of it I’d start thinking about how I was going to spend that million dollars!

Althought maybe before making the long journey…
Forget the digging holes bit and just have someone put a glass of water inside one of five boxes, mix them up and then leave the room so nobody in the room knows where it is. Then try to find it with dowsing. Repeat that five or ten times, and see what happens. Good luck!

Rob

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:54:51 +0000

Easy? Now i have to go digging holes?! :p Seriously though, I thought the prize was to prove something supernatural or paranormal? My girlfriend isn’t claiming to be guided by fairies or anything..