Part One: The Fake Bomb Detector Grift That Killed Hundreds
This episode of Behind the Bastards dives into the long, absurd history of human gullibility, tracing how pseudoscientific ideas like dowsing rods and spirit communication evolved into modern-day tech cons—especially in AI—using the idiomotor effect as a through-line. Host Robert and gu
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