National Forensic Academy teaches to dowse for the dead(themarshallproject.org)
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National Forensic Academy teaches to dowse for the dead
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/03/17/witching-dowsing-buried-bodies-police
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Dowsing has in fact not been proven to work. There is instead overwhelming evidence that it does not work better than chance.
Wikipedia sums it up nicely, with citations: -- The motion of such dowsing devices is generally attributed to the ideomotor phenomenon,[7][8][9] a psychological response where a subject makes motions unconsciously. Put simply, dowsing rods respond to the user's accidental or involuntary movements.
The scientific evidence is that dowsing is no more effective than random chance.[10][11] It is therefore regarded as a pseudoscience. -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
For an entertaining time, check out the late James Randi and his debunking of dowsing
Wikipedia sums it up nicely, with citations: -- The motion of such dowsing devices is generally attributed to the ideomotor phenomenon,[7][8][9] a psychological response where a subject makes motions unconsciously. Put simply, dowsing rods respond to the user's accidental or involuntary movements.
The scientific evidence is that dowsing is no more effective than random chance.[10][11] It is therefore regarded as a pseudoscience. -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
For an entertaining time, check out the late James Randi and his debunking of dowsing
>If it was completely luck, then they (hopefully) wouldn't do it.
I remember an article in Analog, a very long time ago, that touted how dowsing was used to locate mines in Vietnam. John W. Campbell was into a bunch of silly things.
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-astounding-20181115-s...
There was a guy who made millions more recently selling fake bomb detectors that were used in places like Iraq:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22380368
If it was not real, would they use it in life and death situations? Yes, yes they would.
I remember an article in Analog, a very long time ago, that touted how dowsing was used to locate mines in Vietnam. John W. Campbell was into a bunch of silly things.
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-astounding-20181115-s...
There was a guy who made millions more recently selling fake bomb detectors that were used in places like Iraq:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22380368
If it was not real, would they use it in life and death situations? Yes, yes they would.
Yikes. Didn’t know Hogwarts had an engineering school.
Dowsing doesn't work though...
We don't know how or why dowsing rods work over bodies of water, but they're good enough for our water companies to use. If it was completely luck, then they (hopefully) wouldn't do it.