Seller of "Bomb dowsing rods" arrested. Yay! Randi comments.

James McCormick, seller of fake bomb detection devices which are no different than dowsing rods, has been arrested for fraud. Belief in these "magic" rods may have put iraqi civilians and allied forces at risk. The Amazing James Randi comments. Story here:

Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'

Boss who sold bomb detectors to Iraq arrested over fraud
westysays...

>> ^shuac:
Not for nothin' but...does James Randi have anyone he can pass the torch to? Yikes.


he already has for the most part , there are a good number of people in his organization and also multiple ogrinisatoins that opere on similar stuff now.

James Randi is just the face and the name and dose bits and bobs to help promote things still but no longer fully manges things , because of his fame and the fact he is like 600 years old , i cannot remember the name of the guy that esentualy took over his job.

Crakesays...

Fuck... i think i had my bag tested with one of these, when i visited the Tower of London in 2004... or are there legitimate bomb-screening, rod-shaped devices?

If it's "no better than random selection", i could have been arrested for terrorism?

shit!

zorsays...

This is a perfect example of the Emperor's New Clothes phenomenon. Kids will read the story and say 'I could never be that stupid.' Yes you can and yes we are! Don't ever doubt it for a minute.

sepatownsays...

Iraqi Interior Ministry still backing 'bomb detector'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8477601.stm

'...But the interior ministry is still standing by the device.

Jawad al-Bolani said on Friday: "There are a lot of companies working on the development of these sort of instruments and Iraq is now considered a market area for companies producing such devices.

"It is a business, the business of security. And there are other rival companies trying to belittle the efficiency of these instruments the government is buying." ....'

'...However, the ministry's inspectorate told the BBC's Jim Muir, in Baghdad, that it was carrying out its own investigation into suspicions that corruption was involved in the deal to import the devices....'

Gabe_bsays...

>> ^fjules:
When did Randi got so old?


It's the hair right? Once your keratin starts weakening you start to look quite a bit older. Skin still looks good though, we got him for a few more years.

So I remember about a year back Youtube shut down his channel. How did that get resolved? I sent an email at the behest of the sift but didn't see how it all ended up. Just got an message from yt saying they don't comment on channels.

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