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Feedback: Detecting a dubious detection

14 May 2014

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Detecting a dubious detection

GEORESONANCE? What would that be? Feedback’s fruitloop-detector pinged when we read that, on 28 April, a firm by that name to have found the wreckage of tragically missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Although inexpert in the company’s field of mineral exploration, we were still surprised to read its claims at that “Subsurface deposits generate distinct electromagnetic fields that reflect physical and chemical properties of atoms [which] can be captured by airborne multi-spectral images.”

Armed forces around…

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