Soemthing Completely Different

Recently British businessman James McCormick was convicted of fraud. McCormick was director of ATSC (UK), a company which sold the ADE 651 a device which could supposedly detect explosives, drugs, ivory and even human bodies. It turns out that the ADE 651 is a fraud. The device, which has appeared under different labels, was used extensively in Iraq and Afghanisitan as well as countries ranging from Mexico to Thailand. It would make an interesting story; the ADE 651 as an allegory for greed, scientific ignorance, and corruption all leading to the fiasco of the Iraq war.