Editing Dowsing (section)

===Fraudulent security devices===
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[[File:RandiNYC10.10.08ByLuigiNovi3.jpg|thumb|right|Skeptic [[James Randi]] at a lecture at [[Rockefeller University]], on October 10, 2008, holding a [[United States dollar|US$]]800 device advertised as a dowsing instrument]]

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries a number of dowsing-like devices were marketed for modern police and military use, primarily as explosive detectors, such as the [[ADE 651]], [[Sniffex]], and the [[GT200]].<ref name="justnet.org">[http://www.justnet.org/Lists/JUSTNET%20Resources/Attachments/440/moleeval_apr02.pdf Double-Blind Field Evaluation of the MOLE Programmable Detection System], [[Sandia National Laboratories]] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091104173209/http://www.justnet.org/Lists/JUSTNET%20Resources/Attachments/440/moleeval_apr02.pdf |date=November 4, 2009}}</ref><ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html |title=Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless |first=Rod |last=Nordland |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 4, 2009 |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-date=October 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015141410/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In consequence of these frauds, in 1999 the United States National Institute of Justice issued advice against buying equipment based on dowsing.<ref name="ncjrs.gov">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178913.pdf |title=Guide for the Selection of Commercial Explosives Detection Systems for Law Enforcement Applications (NIJ Guide 100-99), Chapter 7. Warning: Do Not Buy Bogus Explosives Detection Equipment |pages=71–72 |date=September 1999 |access-date=2022-02-25 |archive-date=2022-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227205831/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178913.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>