{"id":14548,"date":"2010-04-11T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T08:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/are-we-alone-bomb-sniffing-magic-wands-version-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T08:10:49","slug":"are-we-alone-bomb-sniffing-magic-wands-version-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/are-we-alone-bomb-sniffing-magic-wands-version-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Are We Alone: bomb-sniffing magic wands version | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/20070_arewealonelogo-300x59.jpg\" alt=\"arewealonelogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6645\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">The podcast \"Are We Alone\" is a great weekly &lsquo;cast from the SETI Institute, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/setiradio.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/when-antiscience-kills.html\">this week&rsquo;s episode<\/a> has Seth Shostak and me discussing the nonsense about Iraq using bomb-detecting dowsing rods (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/arewealone\/dlc.sun.com\/seti\/podcast\/AWA_10-04-05.mp3\">here&rsquo;s a direct download of the MP3<\/a>). These magic wands <em>do not work<\/em>, and their use has allowed cars loaded with bombs through checkpoints in the Middle East. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/11\/04\/when-antiscience-kills-dowsing-edition\/\">This is a direct example<\/a> of how magical, antiscientific thinking can do real harm, resulting in dangerous situations and even deaths&hellip; hundreds of them.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8IpQ7gLNgMVbJK1xZcsiZ-yaBUU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/20070_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8IpQ7gLNgMVbJK1xZcsiZ-yaBUU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/20070_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/20070_J59HPgzGAio\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/20070_Gl08JpCavYc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast \"Are We Alone\" is a great weekly &lsquo;cast from the SETI Institute, and this week&rsquo;s episode has Seth Shostak and me discussing the nonsense about Iraq using bomb-detecting dowsing rods (here&rsquo;s a direct download of the MP3). These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/are-we-alone-bomb-sniffing-magic-wands-version-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}