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Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people actually believe this nonsense? It sounds like the kind of thing that Russell Brand was wittering about a couple of years ago Probably. My mum was a New-Age type, so I grew up with homeopathic pills explicitly labelled as “sodium chloride”, “silicon dioxide”, and “titanium dioxide”, while being told my brother and I were “typical” for our astrological star signs. She was big on dowsing with wands and pend…

Table salt, sand, and food-grade white pigment respectively. Also: Sorry you went through that decline at the end. :'(

> table salt, sand, and food-grade white pigment

But it's often not in dangerous quantities, because homeopathy believes that the less of something is present somewhere it works better, and it's called "dynamization" or "potentization" by the producers, diluting the material sometimes to the point that in thousands of sold pills, counted together, there can't be more than one single molecule! The process then practically guarantees that there aren't dangerous substances in the pill or "solution". Heh.

The "less potent" pills or solutions can actually have some amounts of the stuff named on them, beware of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilutions

"24X 12C 10−24 Has a 60% probability of containing one molecule of original material if one mole of the original substance was used."

"26X 13C 10−26 If pure water were used as the diluent, no molecules of the original solution remain in the water."

Edit: regarding the 5G issue, an article where about Glastonbury Town Council report, where the 5G USB "solution" was mentioned by "Non-Councillor Advisory Committee Member" (I have no idea what that means):

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/health/5g-coronavirus-bi...

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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The most worrying thing I found about this article is the seriousness of the review - as if the pseudoscience is real and the review is checking if the fake device works against the fake science. This is very worrying it made it into the BBC.

-I read it more like the BBC trying to keep the reporting neutral to a tee while still leaving no doubt (to anyone but the most ardent believer in quackery) that this device is a scam.

Decidedly British, I'd say.

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post #50

Glasto is renowned for being a bit different: "Mr Hall said his remarks in Glastonbury Town Council's 5G Advisory Committee report should not be seen as a recommendation to buy the product. But he had no regrets about buying it and since plugging it in had felt beneficial effects, including being able to sleep through the night and having more dreams." "I also felt a 'calmer' feel to the home," he told BBC News. It's…

Glastonbury (the town) is like a different world, you have to visit it to appreciate it.

https://normalforglastonbury.uk

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does not; it's a sticker on an USB stick

So I wonder about legality of it - devices that interfere with wireless communications are illegal....so what about a device that says that it does, but in fact it does not? I guess the description is crafted in such a way that it doesn't actually say it interferes, just that it "harmonizes" the fields, whatever that means.

I assume there's no law in the UK against "harmonising all harmful frequencies into life affirming frequencies" since that's not a real thing.

Laws against false advertising on the other hand...

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If you see "quantum" in a general public health product, you know it's going to be a scam, but probably a successful one. My mother loves those kind of things and no amount of discussion with her will create any doubt in her mind. I can't blame people falling for this though. They have been disrespected by the traditional health institutions for so long any escape seems good to them. You can see the same effect in po…

It can also even be literally radioactive https://youtu.be/mEm9ooXyKss

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Reminds me of the ADE651 fake bomb detector[0]. At least people will not die because of this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

> Investigations by the BBC and other organisations found that the device is little more than a "glorified dowsing rod" with no detecting ability. In January 2010, export of the device was banned by the British government and the managing director of ATSC was arrested on suspicion of fraud;[3] in June 2010, several other companies were raided by British police.[4] ATSC was dissolved on 5 March 2013.[5] On 23 April 2013, the founder of ATSC, James "Jim" McCormick, was convicted of three counts of fraud[6] and subsequently sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.[7]

Let's hope our false saviour meets the same fate.

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If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…

I thought this was going to be a small 5G jammer.

In 2013 someone was jamming GPS signals near the London Stock Exchange's data center [1]. The Economist's expert believes it was a truck driver evading employer tracking.

My best guess is it was high frequency traders being shady.

[1] https://www.economist.com/international/2013/07/27/out-of-si...

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post #59

Reminds me adapter plugs that filter out electricity generated by nuclear power plants.

I've always wondered how people manage to seperate the 'bad electrons coming from nuclear power plants' from the 'good electrons coming from good old safe coal power plants' :)
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