> In particular, some experts are distressed that a Vass trainee recently got witching results admitted as evidence in a Georgia murder trial.
As with most of these bits of pseudoscience, it's a probable cause generator.
> Vass tells him it’s about a quarter mile. “The advantage of this is you don’t have to be on a property to scan it,” he says. “You can be on a public street and scan your suspect’s yard.”
Oh, and while it can magically find missing people "as far as 75 miles" away, you can't get one.
> One student asks, “Do you mean if you have a missing child, you can take that child’s DNA and put it in that and go to work?”
> “Yeah, absolutely,” Vass says. “It doesn’t take long to find them.”
> “How much does one of those things cost?” another student asks. “I’ll write a check right now.”
> “I’m not selling them right now,” Vass says. “I’m just kind of assisting law enforcement when needed.” He says the device isn’t for sale because he’s concerned about national security issues. “I can tell you what room the president’s in in the White House,” he says. “ I can tell you which house has gold in it.”
And, if it doesn't work when Vass is doing it, it's because a mouse died there. (Which probably describes... everywhere.)
> With the excavation complete, Vass wants to discuss one last thing: the divining rods. “From the holes, it appeared to me that maybe an animal had burrowed down in there,” he tells Ponce. “If an animal like a little mouse died there, you’ll get a false positive. So just pay attention to that in the future.”
As with most of these bits of pseudoscience, it's a probable cause generator.
> Vass tells him it’s about a quarter mile. “The advantage of this is you don’t have to be on a property to scan it,” he says. “You can be on a public street and scan your suspect’s yard.”
Oh, and while it can magically find missing people "as far as 75 miles" away, you can't get one.
> One student asks, “Do you mean if you have a missing child, you can take that child’s DNA and put it in that and go to work?”
> “Yeah, absolutely,” Vass says. “It doesn’t take long to find them.”
> “How much does one of those things cost?” another student asks. “I’ll write a check right now.”
> “I’m not selling them right now,” Vass says. “I’m just kind of assisting law enforcement when needed.” He says the device isn’t for sale because he’s concerned about national security issues. “I can tell you what room the president’s in in the White House,” he says. “ I can tell you which house has gold in it.”
And, if it doesn't work when Vass is doing it, it's because a mouse died there. (Which probably describes... everywhere.)
> With the excavation complete, Vass wants to discuss one last thing: the divining rods. “From the holes, it appeared to me that maybe an animal had burrowed down in there,” he tells Ponce. “If an animal like a little mouse died there, you’ll get a false positive. So just pay attention to that in the future.”