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I'm personally agnostic about dowsing. I'd like to witness it working/not working to sway me to one side or the other. But there are too many farmers, whose li

I'm personally agnostic about dowsing. I'd like to witness it working/not working to sway me to one side or the other. But there are too many farmers, whose livelihood actually depends on water, who swear by dowsing for there to be nothing in it.

jelliclesfarm 6y ago
where water levels are variable and water is a big deal...i cant find any hydrology or science backed methods to help make a decision with raw topographical maps to determine if there will be water underneth.
eesmith 6y ago
There are any number of videos of people who swear dowsing works, who swear that dowsing works for a given test environment, for which it indeed works ... until they don't actually know where the water is. There's a famous series of such challenges as part of the $1 million dollar paranormal challenge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge#Example_of_a_test_(dowsing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_... Here's a (long) example video, from many years ago in Australia: https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=122 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=122 . The test starts at https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=764 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=764 . You'll see the 12 testees were confident that the test system was valid, and they would be correct. And after they failed (110 test runs with water, brass, and gold) - https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1947 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1947 - they came up with rationalizations - https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=2242 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=2242 - for why they failed - exactly as Randi predicted. Randi at https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1030 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1030 says he did this to persuade people like you that dowsing doesn't work.
- jelliclesfarm 6y ago
  well..i dont masturbate to science. james randi is a chronic wanker. the easiest thing in the world is to dismiss everything we dont understand and slap a 'pseudoscience' label upon it. so james randi is intellectually incurious and a lazy chronic science wanker. in my books. ymmv.

jelliclesfarm 6y ago

where water levels are variable and water is a big deal...i cant find any hydrology or science backed methods to help make a decision with raw topographical maps to determine if there will be water underneth.

eesmith 6y ago

There are any number of videos of people who swear dowsing works, who swear that dowsing works for a given test environment, for which it indeed works ... until they don't actually know where the water is. There's a famous series of such challenges as part of the $1 million dollar paranormal challenge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge#Example_of_a_test_(dowsing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_... Here's a (long) example video, from many years ago in Australia: https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=122 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=122 . The test starts at https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=764 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=764 . You'll see the 12 testees were confident that the test system was valid, and they would be correct. And after they failed (110 test runs with water, brass, and gold) - https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1947 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1947 - they came up with rationalizations - https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=2242 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=2242 - for why they failed - exactly as Randi predicted. Randi at https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1030 https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1030 says he did this to persuade people like you that dowsing doesn't work.

jelliclesfarm 6y ago
well..i dont masturbate to science. james randi is a chronic wanker. the easiest thing in the world is to dismiss everything we dont understand and slap a 'pseudoscience' label upon it. so james randi is intellectually incurious and a lazy chronic science wanker. in my books. ymmv.