Dowsing Rod Hoax Device Gets Boost from Fourth Army Region Commander
A hoax device that is nothing but a rotating metal rod attached to handle continues to make a laughing stock of military officers who refuse to have the device scientifically tested and are critical of suggestions that the 900,000 baht devices of which they have purchased more than 500 of the totally useless and worthless devices.
The device has a rotating antenna that appears to be moved by an outside force but has been demonstrated to actually be moved by the “ideo-motor effect,” or tiny unconscious had movements by the operator. This type of device has been debunked and shown to be useless, but still is in use by water dowsers who seem to be fooled by the appearance of the moving rod because the end of the rod moves a large distance even though the operators hand moves imperceptibly small amounts giving the visual effect of being drawn to and pointing at somrthing outside the user.
Fourth Army Region Commander Lt-Gen Pichet Wisaichorn called on the public to stop criticizing the GT200 bomb detectors because they have been established to be the best tool obtainable for use in the restive South.
Better gear would definitely be welcome, but in the interim just criticizing what is available does no good at all, he said.
Devices working on the same principle have failed to detect 1000 pounds of explosives from six meters away in controlled tests.
The GT200 contains no parts that could detect a chemical presence. The manufacturer claims that the rotating antenna picks up “magnetic resonances” of explosive materials. The manufacturer also claims that the device runs on the static electricity of the user and suggests users move their feet up and down. This moving of the feet may have been a humorous addition to the instructions by the maker of the devices to make the buyers and users look even more ridiculous.
Jim McKormick, maker of the almost identical ADE651 device (made for $1 each and sold to Iraq for $40,000 each) has been arrested in the U.K. His device was declared “totally ineffective and fraudulent” by U.S. forces.
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