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Posted By: oakMary might know whether Sniffex contributed to any physical injury:There has been much conjecture and some fact about this. In brief, probably the worst confirmed incident was when soldiers in Thailand (IITC) examined a motor bike suspected of having an IED, they used a Sniffex, they pronounced it clean, more soldiers approached to check it out further and merchants went about their business nearby. When the soldiers touched the bike, it exploded killing three and wounding 6 (again IIRC). At one time there was a Youtube video showing the explosion and the bodies (again IIRC) but I believe it has been removed. It was very gory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffex
SniffEx® was selling company stock through PinkSheets, an exchange selling “penny stocks”.Sandia never had to test this device because other tests of the device occurred that were more than adequate toestablish the random chance performance of the device. Onetest was performed by an anonymous individual in a double-blind test of the SniffEx® at the Seventh Annual CaliforniaSafety and Security Conference in Anaheim, CA.Hemanaged to talk the president and vice president of thecompany into testing the device in the hall outside of wherethe conference was being held. The results of the test arewell presented at the review website [11]. This test clearly shows that a rigorous double-blind test need not becomplicated and the results are seldom in doubt.
Posted By: AngusAnd here's the other one
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13318030-600-fatal-explosion-closes-c
Posted By: AngusIt works or it doesn't. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Posted By: AngusWe don't discuss medical woo here much. There must be many victims of medical nonsense, starting with people crippled by their chiropractors.
Posted By: alsetalokin... And in nuclear ICBMs, where "close" is quantified as Circular Error Probability.
Posted By: PathoskepticOf course Sniffex was a pure hoax. So not even marginal functionality expected.Abd's thing was that somehow, holding the thing bolsters confidence and enables mystically powerful human intuition to work. I don't discount intuition and that people can do remarkable things with their ordinary sensory apparatus and muscles/brain but it isn't reliable. And it probably doesn't include detecting IED's that are "well placed" and hidden.