Concerning the current ADE-651 dowsing-rod brouhaha in which the “inventor” and manufacturer James McCormick was arrested and then released on bail, BBC news has just quoted a senior Iraqi interior ministry official, Assistant Deputy Minister General Tareq al-Asl, as stating:
The reason the director of the company [James MCormick] was arrested was not because the device doesn't work, but because he refused to divulge the secret of how it works to the British authorities, and the Americans before them.
Well, I don’t think so.
It was because UK agencies finally looked into this farce and found that the ADE-561 is one example of the widespread delusion so many people have that they can use sticks, twigs, wires, rods, or pendulums to detect people, explosives, lost dogs, gold, oil, or almost anything else. Ah, but Iraqi Assistant Deputy Minister General Tareq al-Asl is now eligible to win the JREF million-dollar prize, folks! He is quoted by the BBC as saying:
I have tested it in practice and it works effectively and 100% reliably.
Now there’s confidence for you! I tremble to anticipate that the Assistant Deputy Minister General will apply for the prize… (That can be found at http://www.randi.org/site/
WHY AREN’T THESE OFFICIALS REQUIRED TO PROVE THEIR CLAIMS? Because they’re protected by a system that doesn’t hold them responsible for their statements or for their actions! And WE support and encourage these people, friends!