Truly, the World is Going Mad

We used to laugh at our primitive ancestors for believing in evil spirits and using talismen to scare them away. Well, maybe we aren’t so far removed after all.

A device costing more than £300 promises to protect your family from the supposed dangers of 5G, using ground-breaking quantum technology – but does it work? Of course not.

And I wouldn’t expect it to. The 5G conspiracy theory is pure cockwaffle, believed by the credulous. I had a face-palm moment when a family member came out with the 5G causes Covid crap. I’m not entirely sure how I managed to remain civil, but I did.

One of nine external members, Toby Hall, said: “We use this device and find it helpful,” and provided a link to its website, which describes it as a USB key that “provides protection for your home and family, thanks to the wearable holographic nano-layer catalyser, which can be worn or placed near to a smartphone or any other electrical, radiation or EMF [electromagnetic field] emitting device”.

“Through a process of quantum oscillation, the 5GBioShield USB key balances and re-harmonises the disturbing frequencies arising from the electric fog induced by devices, such as laptops, cordless phones, wi-fi, tablets, et cetera,” it adds.

Well, I’ve read some moronic technobabble in my time, but this is class.

Each of these USB keys costs £339.60 including VAT, though there is a special offer of three for £958.80.

Meanwhile, Dr Good still has a few bottles of snake oil going for a reasonable price. Fuck me, there’s one born every minute.

“So what’s different between it and a virtually identical ‘crystal’ USB key available from various suppliers in Shenzhen, China, for around £5 per key?” asks Ken Munro, whose company, Pen Test Partners, specialises in taking apart consumer electronic products to spot security vulnerabilities.

Well?

And the answer appears to be a circular sticker.

“Now, we’re not 5G quantum experts but said sticker looks remarkably like one available in sheets from stationery suppliers for less than a penny each,” he says.

A fool and his money, eh? And there is always a charlatan queuing up in line to take it.

“We are in possession of a great deal of technical information, with plenty of back-up historical research,” she said.

“As you can understand, we are not authorised to fully disclose all this sensitive information to third parties, for obvious reasons.”

Those obvious reasons being that it is a con designed to part the stupid with their money.

20 Comments

  1. There is a book called ‘Flim Flam ‘ by magician James Randi that describes lots of similar scams and the charlatans that use them. The stupidity of their victims is sometimes difficult to believe.

    • To make it even more worrying, this moron wants to spend council taxpayers’ money on this scam.

      And he had thought the company might be able to develop a system that could offer protection to the whole town of Glastonbury against the effects of radiation from electromagnetic fields.

  2. It also keeps marauding elephants away. The proof is obvious.
    Do you see any elephants?
    The technical explanation is stolen from either Doctor Who, or early Star Trek.

  3. Lots of people believe that sticking huge whirling Mercedes’ logos up heap big totem poles will stop droughts, floods, pandemic virii, extreme high temperatures, extreme low temperatures -in fact, all bad stuff.
    It also helps if you give all your (well not theirs, obviously) money as a sacrifice to these totems.
    So far virgins are safe…….. but…….

  4. It is possible for some of the more susceptible people to be affected in small ways by certain higher frequency radio signals. Usually its in the form of headaches and affects those very close to the source, and also depends very much on the power output of the transmitter. Its unknown as far as I can tell, whether 5G frequencies will make the issue worse, I think in general there’s a fear because 5G frequencies are an order of magnitude higher than ever seen before. The jury has been out for years about cancer but one thing that no radio frequency could possibly do is inject a virus. Those who think otherwise have been brainwashed and clearly lost the plot.

    And there’s only one way to neutralise a radio signal, that is by broadcasting another signal of the same frequency but opposite phase, when the two signals meet they cancel each other out.

    • Take a look at this Youtube video.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcysZ65Mpp8

      The 5G network operates near to microwave frequencies ( which are 300 MHz to 300 GHz). As the 5G frequency range 1 uses 10 MHz to 7125 MHz. and frequency band 2 from 24.25 GHz to 52.6 GHz then it will cook the tree … and the people in the bedroom opposite. But the inverse square law means that it will drop off rapidly. Even so there may be a residual health risk if exposed to the relevant frequencies for a prolonged period.

      Still, if the tin foil hat fits, wear it.

  5. So if quantum oscillation will not save me from the evil virus what will?

  6. I saw this on the comments at Samizdata and it made me wonder if he has a point.

    “MadRocketSci
    May 28, 2020
    Is there something to all this chemicals in the water paranoia? Is everyone two years old now?

    I’m beginning to wonder if there’s something horribly wrong that’s somehow degrading our intelligence.”

  7. I find a sneaking admiration for the hustler’s chutzpah.
    Was he previously selling ‘meat onna stick’ at cuttingmeownthroat prices?

    In some ways, he is doing us a public service. Think what harm these cretins could do if their money wasn’t sucked away by such scams?

      • Trained us well he has. Glad you spotted it 🙂
        It’s remarkable how perceptive Sir Pterry was, and how much relevance his characters and situations have. Instead of screaming at the TV in rage, I just try and spot the Discworld episode…Good for my blood pressure, not so good for TV sales.
        “Revolutions never solve anything..always need another, they keep coming round, that’s why they are called revolutions”. Priceless.
        If they’re are any gaps in Pterrification, Douglas Adams will have covered it.

  8. On a similar note: spouting loadsababble for money, to make people feel better, differs from organised religion how?
    In what way is this scammer different from any skypilot with his particular flavour of big sky daddy?

  9. “in possession of a great deal of technical information, with plenty of back-up historical research,”

    Sounds very similar to that “peer reviewed” stuff our Controllers use to justify their cons.

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