How many lives did the GT200 cause us to lose? Meanwhile, credit to the UK
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Re: "Falling for a fake", News, May 5.
From your archives, on February 18, 2010 you kindly published my letter, “So, what is the use of the GT200?”, reacting to your news of February 17, “Bt800m embarrassment”.
Though the GT200 bomb scanner has failed all tests miserably, Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunand could still maintain that ‘though not scientifically proven, forensic scientists can (still) use it effectively’. What a way to cloud the issue by relying on one branch to override the failure. I wonder whether Einstein would have said that, without explaining how the
GT200 could be used by forensic scientists.
Your latest news is supported by plenty of scepticism in 2009 and 2010. No action or precaution has ever been undertaken; how many lives could have been saved if we threw away the GT200 then?
Out of this episode, the only bright spot that mankind can be proud of is the long arm of British justice: her inhabitants were not robbed by this fraud, yet the UK pursued the case against her own citizen rigorously. That can only happen in Britain.
Songdej Praditsmanont
Bangkok
