History of Fake Explosives Detectors
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF FRAUDULENT DETECTORS 1990 - ?
INCLUDING: ADE 651, GT200, ALPHA 6, SNIFFEX, SNIFFEX PLUS, HEDD1, PSD-22, DKL LIFEGUARD, H3TEC, GADE651, AL-6D, KHOJI, QUADRO TRACKER, MOLE
A TALE OF DESPERATION, FRAUD AND CORRUPTION.
The search for explosives to save life, people in disasters or criminal investigations, the hunt for drugs, the drive/greed to get rich and find gold or oil. All tend to be characterised by desperation.
Desperate markets breed conmen, profiteers and gullible or corruptible buyers.
Desperate markets are distorted markets.
The claims made for all these devices are completely un-supported by any known scientific principles. It is self-evident that if any or all of these devices did operate, then it would be a very major scientific breakthrough, and they would provide exceptional utility and value, even at the highly inflated prices we have seen being charged.
We have challenged many of the companies to undertake proper testing. Not least on the grounds of the $1 million USD available from the JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation) for a successful test, but also that if they did succeed, whether at the JREF, or e.g. MIT, then they would be able to put out a press release and sit back and watch the money roll in.
Unsurprisingly none will accept the challenge. Either claiming that the JREF Million Dollar Challenge is itself a fraud, or that testing under controlled conditions cannot work, or that the testers are not (were not in the case of involuntary testing examples) fully trained, or that contamination affects testing, or having agreed to testing subsequently claiming it was unfair.
These excuses neatly echo the same get out of jail attempts used by other deluded or fraudulent proponents of everything from psychic powers to perpetual energy machines etc.
This is a brief history of the fraudsters and their frauds that have leached on to desperation to find markets for fake detectors.
The history is...
INCLUDING: ADE 651, GT200, ALPHA 6, SNIFFEX, SNIFFEX PLUS, HEDD1, PSD-22, DKL LIFEGUARD, H3TEC, GADE651, AL-6D, KHOJI, QUADRO TRACKER, MOLE
A TALE OF DESPERATION, FRAUD AND CORRUPTION.
The search for explosives to save life, people in disasters or criminal investigations, the hunt for drugs, the drive/greed to get rich and find gold or oil. All tend to be characterised by desperation.
Desperate markets breed conmen, profiteers and gullible or corruptible buyers.
Desperate markets are distorted markets.
The claims made for all these devices are completely un-supported by any known scientific principles. It is self-evident that if any or all of these devices did operate, then it would be a very major scientific breakthrough, and they would provide exceptional utility and value, even at the highly inflated prices we have seen being charged.
We have challenged many of the companies to undertake proper testing. Not least on the grounds of the $1 million USD available from the JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation) for a successful test, but also that if they did succeed, whether at the JREF, or e.g. MIT, then they would be able to put out a press release and sit back and watch the money roll in.
Unsurprisingly none will accept the challenge. Either claiming that the JREF Million Dollar Challenge is itself a fraud, or that testing under controlled conditions cannot work, or that the testers are not (were not in the case of involuntary testing examples) fully trained, or that contamination affects testing, or having agreed to testing subsequently claiming it was unfair.
These excuses neatly echo the same get out of jail attempts used by other deluded or fraudulent proponents of everything from psychic powers to perpetual energy machines etc.
This is a brief history of the fraudsters and their frauds that have leached on to desperation to find markets for fake detectors.
The history is...