On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Peter Heckert <[email protected]>wrote:
> Am 17.11.2011 19:04, schrieb Mary Yugo: > When it goes to court then there are aways professional engineers and > other witnesses and experts that have seen working devices. > Natural physical laws are not justice laws. The second law of > thermodynamics counts nothing at court, when there is a Dr.Dr.Prof. Ing. > who explains, why it is a pure assumption and cannot been proven. > That depends on the judge, in the US anyway. Sometimes, experts can be bought and that's sad. Other times, the judge makes a brave decision. That happened in the case of the Sniffex explosive detector fraud. James Randi called it a fraud in his internet pages and emails. Sniffex sued in Superior Court in Dallas. In the preliminary hearing, the judge asked that a Sniffex device be brought into court and be demonstrated in front of experts, IIRC court appointed experts. Sniffex dropped the suit because they knew the device was phony and did not detect explosives. I can provide some links if anyone needs them but I'd have to spend some time looking them up. It happened around 2006 or 2007.
