Children's fantasy

How true is this one?

From XKCD:

The quacks are killing people

So, it finally dawned on someone that the less-primitive-looking dowsing rod being used in Iraq to detect explosives doesn't work. What a surprise.

The military personnel responsible for approving and buying this "gadget" should be court-martialled, and the creator should be hammered by the law as far as possible. This device, by essentially being a non-functional mock-up, has been responsible for people dying in Iraq.

( Bomb detector may be useless )