 Hello, I'm James Randi. Currently our email at the JRF and at the Internet is filled with the news that James McCormick, the man behind the farcical ADE 651 device that is being used in terrorist-sensitive areas to sweep cafes, theaters, guarded checkpoints, military posts, police stations and other facilities for explosives, has now been arrested and charged with fraud. He's made literally millions selling these fake sticks, yet he's been released on bail. Now the very best thing we can hope for is that he'll bolt to escape prosecution, become an international fugitive and be found on an island somewhere in the Pacific. I need to set a few facts straight here, however. Yes, I specifically offered McCormick the JRF's million-dollar prize long ago. He chose to ignore it as we predicted he would. But the media have reported that, and I quote, In 1995, the Sandia National Labs and the FBI raised the alarm over a dowsing rod device called the Quadrotracker, which they described as a fraud. And the FBI warned all agencies should immediately cease using the device. Close quote. That is quite true, but you should know that the McCormick device is quite the same as all the other fakes, including the Quadrotracker. And the actual procedure by which this FBI action arose is a bit different. I was the one who alerted the U.S. Department of Energy, the DOE, to the Quadrot rod, which we'd already tested at the JRF with an operator certified by Quadrotracker using it. Need I tell you that it was useless? The DOE then turned to Sandia Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and commissioned them to do tests on the Quadrotracker. The Sandia examination of the device revealed that there were no functioning parts inside the thing, and that it failed very definitive tests that they performed. Not to my surprise, the media chose to ignore this finding, as did the CIA, the FBI, and any and all U.S. government agencies and authorities. Then I got a call from the FBI. Though they'd ignored the Sandia DOE findings, they'd learned that one of their retired agents had purchased a franchise from Quadrot authorizing him to sell the device in the state of Florida. That got FBI attention. One of their own was being victimized. The fact that other American citizens were being swindled didn't get their attention, but a retired agent did. Well, they moved in on Quadrot, and within 48 hours, Quadrot was closed down. Why could the FBI not have acted similarly to protect the rest of us? I even got a phone call from an amused FBI agent while they were searching the Quadrot offices, who told me that they'd found nothing inside the Quadrot rods but a lump of hardened epoxy with very dead ants embedded in it. I think that man might have directed his attention, not his humor, at the guilty parties who were never charged. Ah, but the media just today reported, and I quote, In 2002, a test by Sandia Labs in the U.S. found that a similar dowsing rod device called the Moldetector, M-O-L-E, did not work and performed no better than a random selection process. They concluded that it did not work and that it looked nearly identical to the Quadrot tracker. Oh, Contreras mes amis, that was the Quadrot. You see, after the FBI raid, Quadrot went out of business, then moved to the U.K. and went back into business as the Mold. They simply scrubbed off the Quadrot name and replaced it with the Mold logo. This was the same useless device, the same fraud, but with a crowning glory. Her Majesty's royal engineers bought several of the moles and employed them to find smuggled IRA arms. Hearing this, I promptly sent a formal officer to the royal engineers, offering any of them the J.Ref Prize if they could detect anything with the mole. Strangely, they refused my offer. Hmm, why, I wonder. But back to Baghdad. A senior Iraqi officer involved in bomb prevention has defended the ADE 651. Major General Jihad Al-Jabiri, who appeared at a press conference with Mr. McCormick himself following a disastrous bombing in which the area had been swept by the ADE 651, said that he didn't care about Sandia and that he knew more about bombs than Americans. He said, and I quote, Whether it's magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs. Oh, really? Well, you fat-ass general, why did you subsequently pass on the specific offer I made to you to correct the J.Ref Billion Dollar Prize? We were prepared to call upon qualified persons in Baghdad to conduct such a test so that you and your flunkies wouldn't lose any wand-waving opportunities. Now, I have to wonder, could it be that there's been an arrangement whereby you're the one handling the sale of these fake devices at a vastly inflated price and at the cost of the lives of militia and civilians? Just a question. Tourist minds want to know. Hello, General? Now, where did he go? He's running, folks. He's running. They all run. Now, while I'm very happy with the fact that James McCormick has finally been snared by law enforcement, I have to make this appeal to everyone to see that he is firmly prosecuted. He has a fortune from which he can employ the very best lawyers. He can pack up and flee. Let's see that this fraud pays for the grief, the loss of life and despair that he's brought to his customers. And maybe, just maybe, authorities out there will now choose to consult with the James Randi Educational Foundation, right here, or other such agencies, who can provide them with advice, data and expert opinions on the quack devices on which our government and others squander so much money and facilities. I'm James Randi. We thank you for watching this latest episode of James Randi Speaks. For more of James Randi and the Educational Foundation, make sure you visit randy.org.