SCIO handheld molecular scanner is a scam?

fpsdz · August 26, 2018

I think there are 2 parts to this clash between Linus and thunderf00t:

The misunderstanding of the world "promote", with which tf was referring to bad science and linus interpreted as a literal promotion.

the second the false claims about the capabilities of this technology and these handheld scanner made in Techquickie.

Also, If you watch tf's newer response video he also makes a correction about a bad explanation Techquickie made about spectroscopy.

Amazonsucks · August 26, 2018

5 hours ago, Sauron said:

If you studied physics and chemistry in university then your point is completely moot. You claimed anyone would have seen it, if your evidence for that is that YOU'D have seen it as someone with a freaking degree in that sort of thing then I don't think there's anything to add...

In that case then sure, your knowledge was probably enough to tell it was nonsense - I assumed, based on what you said, that you didn't, otherwise your point wouldn't have made any sense (which turned out to be the case, my bad I guess).

When did the target of the argument shift from the general population to me in particular? I'm an engineer too, I know why this doesn't work (though personally, considering it's not my field of specialization, I would at least have considered the idea that they knew something I don't) and I hadn't seen that techquickie video before - but that is completely irrelevant. YOUR claim was this:

Which is bullshit. You don't get to adjust your argument after the fact just because I called you out on it. You have the same problem as TF himself - you can't see things from the point of view of someone who didn't make a career out of science and in your haste to ridicule them you forget what your point was in the first place.

The thing you claim is me "adjusting" my argument in an ad hoc justification but it was the first thing i said. Someone who knows high school science, or even just someone with common sense should be able to tell that a cheap plastic flashlight looking thing is probs bullshit.

The thing is, as "techy" people(literally has tech in the name) youd expect the people who made the video to be skeptical of something so obviously ridiculous.