dowsing

Reminds me of the dowser who claimed an 80% success rate. When asked why 80%, he replied "well, there's water under about 80% of the land in this area".

"Ten out of 12 major water suppliers in the UK admitted to using “dowsing” or “divining rods” to detect underground water, a method which has been widely discredited by modern science. The rods were once believed to twitch in the hands of a “diviner” to point to underground reserves, a method...

I'm looking for examples of dowsing claimants blaming "negative energy" from doubters/skeptics nearby for their failures, and also claims from dowsers that that they were not responsible, either consciously or unconsciously, for the movement of their dowsing devices. Any help would be much...

I am looking for information on the water diviner Evelyn Penrose (1882-1971). She was described by proponents as the most successful water diviner. It is alleged that Penrose worked as a dowser for the British, Australian and Canadian governments. Kenneth Roberts in his book The Seventh Sense...

Hi all - I'm a new member of the forum - I'm looking for statistics help. A friend of mine is convinced he can dowse water and wants to test his ability. I agreed to help him and I want to do a good job. I'm thinking of having 6 identical new buckets, six numbered spots in a row or circle...

Yesterday Doubtful News highlighted a story in the Kent and Sussex Courier about dowsers claiming to have found mass plague graves etc. See original story here: http://www.courier.co.uk/Plague-pit-discovered-Tunbridge-Wells/story-24096967-detail/story.html Apart form the fact that the story...

Check out the following story, and then let the dolts at Birmingham Mail and Severn Trent Water know what you think (emails below): http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/weird-news/water-divining-finds-club-leak-7512323 I have written explaining that dowsing has zero credible evidence base...

Until recently I considered dowsing to be complete and utter BS. Please let me explain. I am getting a new house built on an acreage where the previous house burnt down. I have had to get quotes from various contractors one of whom was a plumber. He asked me to show him the well, and we...

Doubtful News has covered a story that has been causing a stink here in the U.K. Worth a look to see how the same old scams migrate from one application to another. http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/02/dowsing-for-hepatitis/

This morning I got off work and drove home in a hurry to fill buckets, because we're getting a new water line put in to the house, hopefully so we can stop getting freezing during the winter. Last Friday the surveyor came around, did a bunch of measuring, spray painted lines on the lawn, put in...

Thread split from here. I work in construction and can dowse gas lines, power lines, and telecommunication lines with 100% accuracy 100% of the time. Anyone can. I don't do the work, the rods do. It takes no special talent what so ever. Sounds like some real easy money to be made here to me...

Investigators To Test Dowser In Hollywood,CA $50,000 Award on the Line Hollywood, CA: The world’s largest paranormal investigations team, the Independent Investigations Group (IIG), has for over 12 years examined claims concerning psychics, dowsers, wacky medical claims, telepaths...

I really like MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan. He has been one of the only people in the media to concentrate on the problem of money in politics. I am disappointed, however, about once a week when some guest (like Deepak Chopra) peddles woo and Dylan doens't even try to challange them. Today there was...

Reporting Scotland (BBC Scotland's main daily TV news programme) just reported as fact that a world war 1 German Howitzer gun has been discovered by dowsing. The reporter states: While footage of the dowser doing his stuff is shown. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a regional news programme...

A friend pointed out that, Sabine Baring-Gould, now has had some of his works up on Wikipedia as they've long passed out of copyright. One of them is Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, from 1866. There's a rather lengthy section on dowsing, where Sabine Baring-Gould takes a fairly skeptical...

Go Dr Karl! http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/science/podcast/scienceontriplej/scienceontriplej20110210.mp3 Caller: How do dowsing rods work? Dr Karl: They don't work. v. awesome.

One of the more common tools dowsers use are one or two L-shaped rods. The short end of the L is inserted in a sleeve vertically and the long end is held to point horizontally. There is very little friction between sleeve and rod. If two rods are used, they are typically held close together...

HYwn0c-euYE http://learndowsing.com/ the Dowsers are still scamming people. seems a small investment for getting JREF's million...... ETA: video flagged as scam.

Well, I found out what happened with Dr. Arpad Vass. As you know, Bob, he is the researcher at the Body Farm in Tennessee who claimed he could dowse for bodies. He was invited to take the Million Dollar Challenge, but it seemed nothing happened. On Google Books, no less, there is a book...

Apologies if this has already been posted. Austrian politicians putting tax money to work in secret: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Druids_hired_to_cut_road_accidents Check the photo. I'd be smiling too if I was getting paid to stand by the side of a road holding a couple of sticks.

When I was out walking today I came across a guy that was dowsing, It was sort of a shock since I have never seen someone do this in person. It was even more of a shock when I saw that he was working for Union Gas, which is a major company where I live in Canada. I never said anything to...

More here. Here's to hoping the Thai government does indeed pursue legal against the company. Bad enough people use dowsing to find water, but to tell people it will locate explosives? :eek:

While the marketer of the ADE 561 Bomb Detection Device is facing criminal fraud charges, it's worth noting that the US government continues to rely on a similarly pseudoscientific device: the lie detector. High-ranking US government officials swear by the lie detector the same way Iraqi...

http://www.theage.com.au/world/iraqi-fury-over-useless-british-bomb-detectors-20100124-msj0.html?autostart=1 If they are going to be up to date, they should use blue leds. I feel sorry for the Iraqi's who have died due to this scam.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm Im appalled. Reading this article was a jaw dropping experience, its incredible that these devices have been being sold with no scientific evidence that they even work. I notice a reference to Randis million dollar challenge in the...

A friend of mine has always spoken about he can water witch, or "Dowse" so, I told him vaguely about the million dollar challenge. Although I couldn't remember the name of this place, I decided to keep an eye open in case I ever found it again. Well, here I am, the other night I stumbled upon...

I work for an electric utility company and part of our job is to locate underground electric utility cables. Of course there is high tech equipment to accomplish this, but a few weeks ago an old lineman showed me a trick using two pieces of #6 copper wire bent at a 90deg angle. He would hold...

OK..."battle" may be stretching it. But at the blog "Rex Parker Does The NYT Crossword Puzzle" he is being discussed. RANDI was in today's puzzle, and the blog writer commented thusly: "45A: "Amazing" debunker of the paranormal (Randi) — Surprisingly (given the "i"-spelling of RANDI), not a...

go to Reuters, video watch the "ASEAN security beefed-up" video At 0:30 you'll see the experts hard at work :rolleyes: (if you can't find it, tough luck, can't post urls)

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/23/f-kenya-lex-rutherford-water.html The mighty dowser travels to Kenya to teach the poor people how to find water with magic sticks. Don't they already have enough trouble with stupid superstitions in Kenya?