Reply #9: a medical device perhaps...? [View All]

[dysfunctional press]

there are still people who believe all that magnet based healing quackery.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Attracting_Attention.asp

According to a press release issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in March 1994, "Pressure dots with tiny magnets affixed to adhesive strips and worn over the arthritic area are promoted for curing arthritis; a magnet in men's briefs is purported to cure impotence; and a magnet used as a suppository is promoted for curing hemorrhoids...

although i tend to believe that he may have been part of a test to see what/how things or components may be able to be smuggled aboard an aircraft.