December 27, 2022

Proving that Nanox is a fraud with a phone

An amazing piece of research has been posted on Reddit today.  I won't spoil the surprise, but you can read the details there, and make sure you have your phone!  Yes, anyone with a phone can now prove that the ARC Day demo was either fake or the ARC device (which includes the tablet, per head of ARC division) is malfunctioning horribly.  The malfunctioning possibility is bad, because Nanox claims to have 1) submitted this device for FDA clearance in September and 2) used it in human trials.  While the author does not spell it out, any submission of this device for clearance or approval to the FDA or any other regulatory agency should be presumed fraudulent - either the device is fake or it is malfunctioning, and Nanox obviously knows it.

I won't address all the "objections" I saw in that thread and elsewhere, but the issue clearly has no relation to time differences or date formats among countries.  Personally, I used an Android phone and the first free QR reader app I could find.  Here is a frame grab from the ARC Day video that worked for me.



Update January 25, 2023:  If you follow the dates of birth shown on the tablet through the video on different screens, we get:

1. 1980-06-08 (a "hidden" string in the QR code)
2. 07/06/1980 , confirmed with a push of a button
3. SUN JUN 08 1980, confirmed with a push of a button

A new theory has been proposed by bjol81@stocktwits that the app simply converted the string 1980-06-08 into Israeli time 1980-06-08 00:00:00, which was then stored as 1980-06-07 22:00:00 UTC due to the time difference between GMT/UTC and Israeli time.  However, in the final screen we still see SUN JUN 08 1980, which would mean there was another output conversion to Israeli time, but displayed in a format that is not standard in Israel.

Update March 7, 2023:  An interesting piece about software bugs that killed:


Likely not relevant, as accumulating evidence from Ghana points to the ARC being simply fake rather than malfunctioning (no detector, no x-ray sources).