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April 27 2013

surveyork
11:53
2741 3576 500
→ www.bbc.co.uk

This was a scam of global dimensions. James McCormick marketed his fake bomb detectors around the world, selling them in Georgia, Romania, Niger, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and beyond.

But his main market was Iraq, where lives depended on bomb detection and where the bogus devices were, and still are, used at virtually every checkpoint in the capital.

Between 2008 and 2009 alone, more than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in explosions in Baghdad. Thousands more were injured, including 21-year-old Haneen Alwan, who was two months pregnant and had gone out to buy ice cream when she was caught in a bomb in January 2009.

Tags: scam James McCormick fake bomb detectors Georgia Romania Niger Thailand Saudi Arabia Iraq bomb detection bogus checkpoint Iraqis killed explosions Baghdad swindle magical thinking
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October 28 2012

surveyork
11:16
8384 c68f
→ www.scientificamerican.com
A soon-to-be-released Cato Institute report purports to be an "addendum" to a 2009 federal summary of climate change impacts but discounts the science in the original
Tags: environment CATO climate change fake

December 29 2011

surveyork
00:59
“ We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud, ”
— Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin using medieval techniques | Reuters
Tags: shroud Turin hoax fake catholic christ jesus dogma pope vatican science religion
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