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In reply to the discussion: Did you know our troops and the Iraqi Army have been using dowsing rods to search for IEDs? [View all]spin
(17,493 posts)63. Which I mentioned ...
The odd thing was that my father and I could not get the forked willow branch to bend or dip like it did for him no matter how hard we tried. We realized that we had no skill at dowsing but merely were trying to figure out if we could duplicate the way the branch reacted to prove to ourselves that dowsing was a trick.
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Did you know our troops and the Iraqi Army have been using dowsing rods to search for IEDs? [View all]
backscatter712
Mar 2013
OP
Apparently, the bad guy in this story isn't the guy selling fucking dowsing rods as bomb detectors..
SidDithers
Mar 2013
#22
Randi has mistakenly been called a Republican before, by a now banned poster...
SidDithers
Mar 2013
#25
And he threw the term "scientific materialist" around as if we're supposed to be insulted.
backscatter712
Mar 2013
#41
I read about this nonsense here on DU a couple of years ago, they used them to "scan" vehicles
arcane1
Mar 2013
#7
Got to do a better job than our weapons inspectors did in Iraq, and plenty believed in them (nt)
The Straight Story
Mar 2013
#10
And scientists are able to reproduce this under controlled conditions? n/t
backscatter712
Mar 2013
#38
Dowsing rods seem crazy to me, but so many people have claimed to have found
ZombieHorde
Mar 2013
#36
Chances are that you will be unsuccessful. However I knew a man who had the "skill." ...
spin
Mar 2013
#42
My Dad (1910-1996) was a popular local dowser for wells (and mineral propector too).
PufPuf23
Mar 2013
#55