{"id":6500,"date":"2010-01-26T03:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cbs-news-does-good-on-the-iraqi-magic-wands-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T03:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:21:05","slug":"cbs-news-does-good-on-the-iraqi-magic-wands-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cbs-news-does-good-on-the-iraqi-magic-wands-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"CBS news does good on the Iraqi magic wands | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6140709n\">CBS Evening News covered the arrest<\/a> of the snake-oil salesman who was selling what he claimed are bomb-sniffing dowsing rods, but are in reality (gasp!) totally useless:<\/p><p><\/p><p>Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack (retired), interviewed in the show, is an old friend and friend of the JREF; if you&rsquo;ve attended a TAM then you&rsquo;ve seen him MC the event. He got in a couple of excellent sound bites!<\/p><p>And I guess I should be fair. The magic wands aren&rsquo;t <em>totally<\/em> useless. They&rsquo;re perfect for getting people blown up and killed. I&rsquo;m sure the terrorists love them.<\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><p><em>Related posts : <br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/22\/a-double-military-victory\/\">A double military victory!<\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/11\/04\/when-antiscience-kills-dowsing-edition\/\">When antiscience kills: dowsing edition<\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/03\/30\/hal-bidlack-colorados-next-congressman\/\">Hal Bidlack: Colorado&rsquo;s next Congressman<\/a> (and yeah, that didn&rsquo;t work out as well as planned, but it&rsquo;s worth reading for things Hal has said and done.)<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8eva29MeUsXINqR7DIE3r0PE7Kg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b81a1_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8eva29MeUsXINqR7DIE3r0PE7Kg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8f68e_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\/8f68e_cd5ZNIZeWig\" 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\/8f68e_4XZVVXfdfz4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, CBS Evening News covered the arrest of the snake-oil salesman who was selling what he claimed are bomb-sniffing dowsing rods, but are in reality (gasp!) totally useless:Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack (retired), interviewed in the show, is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cbs-news-does-good-on-the-iraqi-magic-wands-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-6500","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\/6500"}],"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=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}