{"id":229150,"date":"2010-01-25T22:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2010-01-25T22:21:05","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:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229150","title":{"rendered":"CBS news does good on the Iraqi magic wands | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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>\n<p><center><iframe class=\"embeddedvideo\" src='http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/player-dest.swf' width='425' height='324' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/iframe><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack (retired), interviewed in the show, is an old friend and friend of the JREF; if you&#8217;ve attended a TAM then you&#8217;ve seen him MC the event. He got in a couple of excellent sound bites!<\/p>\n<p>And I guess I should be fair. The magic wands aren&#8217;t <em>totally<\/em> useless. They&#8217;re perfect for getting people blown up and killed. I&#8217;m sure the terrorists love them.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<p><em>Related posts : <br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/22\/a-double-military-victory\/\">A double military victory!<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/11\/04\/when-antiscience-kills-dowsing-edition\/\">When antiscience kills: dowsing edition<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/03\/30\/hal-bidlack-colorados-next-congressman\/\">Hal Bidlack: Colorado&#8217;s next Congressman<\/a> (and yeah, that didn&#8217;t work out as well as planned, but it&#8217;s worth reading for things Hal has said and done.)<\/em><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8eva29MeUsXINqR7DIE3r0PE7Kg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8eva29MeUsXINqR7DIE3r0PE7Kg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8eva29MeUsXINqR7DIE3r0PE7Kg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8eva29MeUsXINqR7DIE3r0PE7Kg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/cd5ZNIZeWig\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/4XZVVXfdfz4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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 old friend and friend of the JREF; if you&#8217;ve attended a TAM then you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}