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The Good Atheist Podcast: Bonus Show 39

Welcome back for another episode of The Good Atheist Bonus show. This week Ryan and I talk about Near Death Experiences, why I’m a bad brother, and the British military’s decision to ban the use of dowsing rods bomb detectors. It’s 36 minutes of TGA fun, but it’s only available to patrons only. If you [...]

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British military comes to its senses, bans useless “bomb detectors”

If you’re not a regular visitor to randi.org (that’s famous skeptic James Randi’s website), you might not know about their fight against dangerous quackery; more specifically, their attempts to expose bogus “bomb detectors” that are nothing more than dowsing devices. The device in question, called the ADE-651, has no electronic components to speak of and [...]

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