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Iran Fooled by Fake Coronavirus Detector
Reports are emerging of a new device developed by the Iran Revolutionary Guard that can detect coronavirus “within a radius of about 100 meters”. Major General Hossein Salami, Commander-in-chief of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, has demonstrated the handheld gun-like device with a long arial, and how it contained a ‘polarised virus’ that could ‘create a magnetic field [that] will point towards coronavirus anywhere within a radius of 100 meters in five seconds”. To use scientific terms, this is utter hogwash and gobbledegook. The device appears to be identical to another gadget that was ‘invented’ by the [read more...]