Episode 50 - Dowsing for Bombs

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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James McCormick tricked the Iraqi government into buying tens of millions of dollars worth of dowsing rods to find bombs. Hilarity did not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow us on twitter: @lions_by sources: https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/dowsing-for-bombs-maker-of-useless-bomb-detectors-convicted-of-fraud.html https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/ie/Janks_Empirical_Evidence_for_Dowsing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html

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0:00.0	The devices called the ADE 651 are made in the UK by a company called ATSC.
0:08.0	They're used throughout Baghdad and much of Iraq.
0:12.0	But despite claims in these promotional videos, British government
0:17.2	says they do not in fact detect explosives. In June the U.S. military spokesman called the device totally ineffective and fraudulent.
0:29.0	The latest statement says simply, as far as the device in question, U.S. forces are not buying, purchasing, or contracting for this device.
0:38.0	Counterterrorism expert Simon Trundell has examined the ADE 651 and says there's no way it can detect explosives.
0:47.0	The only thing this device does is give a false reassurance that there's security in place.
0:51.0	In double one, Britain has banned the further sale of the security in place. In double one?
0:53.0	Britain has banned the further sale of the device to Iraq and Afghanistan and arrested the owner of the company
0:58.7	that makes it on suspicion of fraud.
1:01.2	Hello, welcome to yet another episode of The Lines Led by Donkeys
1:04.8	podcast. I'm Joe and as always Nick is gone and Rich is here.
1:09.1	Hi guys.
1:10.3	Uh, so Rich, how have you been?
1:14.0	I guess I've been all right.
1:16.0	Started a new job recently.
1:18.0	I'm enjoying that, learning new things, all that stuff.
1:21.0	That sounds like a nightmare. No, it's stuff. sounds like a nightmare.
1:23.8	No it's not.
1:24.6	I have a lot more time off than usual, time to myself to really be
1:29.3	introspective and think about how...
1:32.4	Like I said, that sounds terrible.
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