Geotio Wrote:
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> I think the claims of dowsers are "weird" or more
> to the point ,delusional and unsubstantiated .
> People find water all the time , without using
> dowsing rods .
> When put to the test dowsers regularly fail
> miserably .
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I found this:
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Yet despite many anecdotal reports of success, dowsing has never been shown to work in controlled scientific tests. That’s not to say the dowsing rods don’t move. They do.
The scientific explanation for what happens when people dowse is that “ideomotor movements” – muscle movements caused by subconscious mental activity – make anything held in the hands move. It looks and feels as if the movements are involuntary. The same phenomenon has been shown to lie behind movements of objects on a Ouija board.
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www.newscientist.com]
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