{"id":521965,"date":"2010-04-09T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:41:00","slug":"are-we-alone-bomb-sniffing-magic-wands-version-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521965","title":{"rendered":"Are We Alone: bomb-sniffing magic wands version | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/10\/arewealonelogo-300x59.jpg\" alt=\"arewealonelogo\" title=\"arewealonelogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6645\"\/>The podcast &#8220;Are We Alone&#8221; is a great weekly &#8216;cast from the SETI Institute, and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/setiradio.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/when-antiscience-kills.html\">this week&#8217;s episode<\/a> has Seth Shostak and me discussing the nonsense about Iraq using bomb-detecting dowsing rods (<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/dlc.sun.com\/seti\/podcast\/AWA_10-04-05.mp3\">here&#8217;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\"  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&#8230; hundreds of them.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/P37WsDh-MutrN00_SOrjKe-8xdQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/P37WsDh-MutrN00_SOrjKe-8xdQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/P37WsDh-MutrN00_SOrjKe-8xdQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/P37WsDh-MutrN00_SOrjKe-8xdQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/J59HPgzGAio\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/Gl08JpCavYc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast &#8220;Are We Alone&#8221; is a great weekly &#8216;cast from the SETI Institute, and this week&#8217;s episode has Seth Shostak and me discussing the nonsense about Iraq using bomb-detecting dowsing rods (here&#8217;s a direct download of the MP3). These magic wands do not work, and their use has allowed cars loaded with bombs through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521965","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=521965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}