psychoceramics: Pseudoscience against drugs

[Andrew C Bulhak <acb @ cs.monash.edu.au>]

Some of you will have seen this.

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Subject: Schools and law enforcement agencies?
From: david mankins <dm @ k12-nis-2.bbn.com>


> From: w--@a--.ORG (by way of Bill Marshall <BMarshal@bbn.com>)
> Subject: What's New for Jan 26, 1996
> Date: 26 Jan 1996 16:56:59 -0500
> 
> WHAT'S NEW by Robert L. Park   Friday, 26 Jan 96   Washington, DC
> 
> ....
> 
> 4. DOWSED: THE FBI CLOSES DOWN QUADRO AND ARRESTS ITS OFFICERS. 
> WN reported on Quadro's high-tech dowsing rods two weeks ago (WN
> 12 Jan 96).  Saturday, the FBI moved in and charged the company's
> officers with fraud in the sale of more than a thousand of its
> "Trackers," mostly to law enforcement agencies and schools.  Ace
> quack buster James Randi described what the FBI found at Quadro's
> "secret research facility" in Harleyville, SC: To "tune" Trackers
> to substances such as cocaine, a Polaroid photo of cocaine powder
> was repeatedly enlarged with an office copier until the molecular
> structure could be seen.  A tiny piece of the final picture was
> inserted into the device.  A lawyer for the Quadro Corporation
> said "It's clear that the FBI doesn't understand how it works."

- david mankins (d--@b--.com, dm@world.std.com, phone(US): 617-873-2873)

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