Ah, another person challenged by the concept of motion! How every entertaining! :) "I didn't do that" - but of course you did! "I'm keeping it leveled" - no, no, you aren't, because nobody with a properly functioning body can! "I'm not moving my hands" - just as you move them... how very "ironic"! :)
As children find out playing, it takes very little energy to manipulate these things (weights or not; I'd love to see the physics concept behind these, by the way).
very sad, one isn't a dowser, the other has no idea what he is talking about, at the end both of them are taking legal action against each other. How pathetic.
Neither could Helen Keller or Master Po, and they got around just fine.
Obviously there's other senses involved besides vision-- like nystigmus, holographic hearing, proprioception, balance etc-- he's not "using the Force."
The problem is, most people don't know about these senses, so they fall deluded like this truffle-brain... and they get taken by con-artists and snake-oil peddlers as a result.
Dowsing is a form of hypnosis by which a person can communicate with their sense of smell-- nothing more.
Like for finding water-- obviously a person can smell humid air, and air is more humid around water-sources as it diffuses up through the ground when sunlight hits.
In other words, it's an ART with a science behind it, that people didn't know back then. So like most religions, it's simply a traditional practice.
Dousing also can be done with a pendulum-- which is a common known form of self-hypnosis to determine subconscious beliefs and determinations. That's what ideomotor-practices are all about, subconscious responses.
That's why dowsing WORKED-- they'd use "Divining Rods," typically a forked stick, by which "the gods would tell them where the water is" by "pulling down." However in reality it was an ideomotor indicator of subconscious perceptions of humidity in relation to other regions.
You'd do much better to simply train a Labrador retriever, of course; however dowsers actually BELIEVED that some divine influence was at work-- just like the doofus shown here thinks the rods are moving.
the problem is that most of these people are not scammers, they just genuinely believe they have some power or other that makes them special, so no amount of logic can convince them. i just feel sorry for them. :|
the majority of people in the business of the supernatural are very aware about hat they are doing. I stress the word business, because it makes a hell of a lot of money
@MrCorndogEater Hm, well I think the people who attempt his challenge are usually people who genuinely believe. If they knew they were fake, they wouldn't try to "prove" they were real (hence why all the big names never do). Obviously, if they're charging your for something, it's suspicious. But I'm sure there's probably a lot of people who don't have businesses that think they have powers, too. Actually, those are the people who are probably gonna get scammed by people who are lying!
i love this guy. i wish he was my grandpa, ......just so i can ask him to loan me the one million he has stashed away for the frauds. lol jk radi rocks!
I can prove to you- beyond any reasonable shadow of a doubt- that dowsing is real, James Randi. You can keep all your money- no real dowser would want , need, or take it. You already KNOW that, though. Just give me full permission to completely dowse within your 'sacred space'. Well...???
@absoluteabsence000 He doesn't try to debunk anything. If you do a bit of research he used to want to find evidence of the paranormal; it's just unfortunate that through testing it's always been found to be either a product of delusion or deceit.
James doesn't partake in many of the tests. They are tested blindly and without bias. If you want to ignore evidence then go ahead. You should realize though that people are getting hurt and even dying thanks to these repulsive, shameless thieves.
He is moving his hands just to bring the dowses into a parallel direction. When he is start walking, he is not moving his arms. How much they pay you old man to meka people belive nothing?
holy crap, it amazes me how people are so terrible at testing these "abilities" such as dowsing. The "controls" put in place are abysmal! seriously, most people learn about the ideomotor effect in 4th grade!
ideomotor is how dowsing works!the subconscious moves your body when your over your target.
besides ive done it myself many times.ive spun myself around with my eyes closed and made them point to north and it always works.ive even found buried metal i didnt even know was their so how is that possible?
You are a man searching for things in the wrong place, wears a pair of spectacles coated with the filter of materialism and conditioned mind. I feel sympathy for you. The old man has wasted a life time running behind things and he is left behind with the precious million dollar gift. One day he will realize that the truth he is tries to prove is beyond money and fame
@AlxFitz I understand you. But he had done equally harm to mankind by disproving greater realities of universe. I would request you to do research on the fields of Pranic healing for knowing more. Visit the website spiritualresearchfoundation and learn practice and experience
@Anoop20111 None of the people who make these ridiculous 'paranormal' claims can prove they really work under controlled conditions, so they're just liars and frauds or maybe deluded. Simples.
@astrophonix If you believe so then it will remain so for you, unless it is not. Every body has the capability to explore and find out things. It is up to you to believe in what you see in youtube or explore on your own honestly.
@Anoop20111 Is that pathetic drivel you have spouted like the 'law of attraction' bullshit? The 'world is just a reflection of our state of mind' crapola? So you are given over to pure wishful thinking? The people who advocate this psychic rubbish are deluded or frauds, you must be in the deluded loser camp. You cannot prove what you believe is true, so you are compelled to make pathetic excuses for it to save face. Me, I love reality as it really is.
@astrophonix Your definition of reality is what your experience in life is and that is the truth for you agreed. But I would say you have experienced only one aspect of the reality and until you experience both aspects you will not get the full picture. Research of lives of people who came back to prosperity from very bad situations in life and listen to what they have to tell about their reality. Some examples are lives of Louise L Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King
@Anoop20111 'Both' aspects of reality? What the real aspect and the unreal aspect? I read up on the great guys like the Dalai Lama, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Richard Feynman etc and take advice from these wise men, but I don't think they would say they live in another 'aspect' of reality as such. As Laurie Anderson (a female genius) said in Language is a Virus; "paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, MUCH better". Paradise is really a state of mind.
@astrophonix One aspect of reality is the perception on life as something beyond our control, how people behave to you and your experience from others has nothing to do with who you are, it's all about their characters and coincidence in life. You are a pawn and a victim who just live your life as it appears.
@Anoop20111 Shit, for just a moment there I thought you might have a valid point, but you're just another self-righteous,ignorant, arrogant, judgmental asshole.
@astrophonix I believe most of the people who has interacted with you has the same opinion about you and had struggled hard to get your relationships better. Your statements reflects who you are and what your perception is about others who has a different opinion.
@Anoop20111 I can see from the responses to your comments on other videos that I'm not the only one who thinks you're an arrogant self-righteous preachy asshole, you come across to everyone you encounter as a smug know-it-all who thinks you can talk down to everyone like you're some holy-than-thou superior super-enlightened god-like twat.
@astrophonix Brother, as we all know we are here to open up our minds and share our understanding. If I have hurt you in any manner, I'm sorry, I really did not intend to do any harm to anybody. I prefer to continue to share my experience, to the truth of my conscience rather than telling any philosophy. Why don't you share your understanding about things rather than abusing? If you feel I am not correct then isn't it not appropriate for you tell what is true to your understanding?
@astrophonix Another aspect of reality is that what you see in the world as your life situations and experience from others is a reflection of your actions and beliefs about others. There are no coincidences in life. You look within rather than in others and outside world for the reasons for what is happening to you. You take life as an opportunity and what appears as failures as successive experiments in learning and towards success.
This kind of people pretend to have an scientific mind but he is actually not interested in knowing the truth but denying the truth which brings more benefit and respect from followers. He is misleading people. He wont accept to experiment and learn new things about a different school of thought if does not have the opportunity to get a person for his show or his branding. Dont be foolish by taking him granted blindly
Mr. Randi, have you ever taken two L-shaped wires and tried it yourself?
It's something that you can only understand if you try it yourself. Skeptics tend to file all testimony on it under the various ways they could be faked, but how many have actually tried it themselves?
I don't know about water, but I've found all kinds of stuff (pipes, tree roots, buried animals) with rods. If someone walks under them, they'll cross. They don't find everything but there is something to it.
I have done this. My father looks for underground water lines to make a well. So I also tried and it did work! I did not think or choose where the lines should cross, they just moved on a surtian point and in the others they did not.
I dont know what this guy is actually doing, but I can not say, that this is totally fake.
And by the way - that must not be paranormal. It might be explained with simple physics. Is a compass also a witchcraft? A magnetic needle moving? no, it is physics.
people get wells 'witched' in northern ontario all the time. i don't know about dowsing. my parents had an old german guy witch our well, but ah it was cheap. lol
There is a cult which is in JREF, Quatloos, pro-government 9/11, pro-fed which are adept at name calling. All they do is name call, and hopes that you are not informed. They appear to spend a lot of time arguing on their forums, and you wonder if they have a job.
In my country Jewish community demanded to stop demolition of old sport hall , because at same place told there was Jewish cemetry, they even get their own rabi-dowser (:D) to confirm that as argument (well it is nonsense). Thought few bones were found, then Jewish community protested, because they can let touch bones to confirm identity instead they offered a laser system. Of course sane people denied and court halted demolition. It would be funny if not sad.
@jjqueiros Don't worry, it's not your fault that your mind is closed to wonder things. Modern society is a bitch. It would be pointless to try and explain things to people like you and Mr. Know-It-All...
"Otherwise James Randi admit you're a fraud and disband your organization." Oh that's a riot. As if he has conclusively shown ANYTHING on that video???
Subconscious movements may not be the deciding factor of if dowsing is legit or not..The question might be can the subconscious mind detect or influence the world on a physical level. same with Remote Viewing. etc. A study of brainwaves frequencies percentage of accuracy over many tests and not just one test provides more substantial proof through percentages with multiple applicants and factors involved for comparisons,
I misread the title of this video as "Dowsing, the Idiotomotor Effect". There is absolutely nothing these idiots can do that a trained magician, or someone like Derren Brown, cannot do. Which may explain why Randi's prize is still up for grabs. It may be all in the mind, but it's the SCIENCE of the mind, not hocus pocus and wish-fulfilment.
Hey for a million bucks Ill make up some crazy as shit and at least try to squeak it by, no harm in trying. Well other than you look like an ass. But what guy doesn't look like an ass walking around with two stupid ass sticks with levels attached to them claiming to "douse".
People want to believe these things. I usually perform a test on people involving gelatine-based candy, like gummy bears of different colors. People insist that different colors taste differently, but somehow they are never able to tell when they are blindfolded. You'd think that this test reveals to people that they make these assumptions about taste based on the color alone, and renounce their superstition on taste - but it never does. It turns out that people are fundemental candy-believers.
While I agree with James Randi 99% of the time I have seen dowsing work in order to detect pipes and air ducts concealed beneath beneath floor boards or in the ceiling of a building (by people who have no knowledge of where the air duct, or pipes are located in the building. I can only assume that finding an underground spring works in the same way.
@SupraJulie So there are no standards, no rules, no common practices in mounting ventilation pipes? Do they throw dice or something when they decide where to mount them? : )
@winterstellar I didn't say that there weren't. I don't know where those places are, and dowsing has worked for me in such a way playing around. I don't think that it's miraculous that dowsing works for these things. I just think that dowsing isn't very well understood (especially by dowsers).
James Randi isn't amazing. I'm sure if you told him he was amazing, he would say he's just as amazing as any skeptic out there. You're as amazing as James and so am I. Don't forget.
James Randi isn't amazing. I'm sure if you told him he was amazing, he would say he's just as amazing as any skeptic out there. You're as amazing as James and so am I. Don't forget.
Mr. Randi, you once again are calling a spade a spade. This incredibility stupid man has to/needs to believe in this hocuspocus bullsh_t. May Mohamed, Santa, and his sex gang children forgive everyone of their stupidity. lol
@lesperio I bet you would call lightning a "supernatural thing". What quantum physics describes no man can do, unless you can move the way particles do, with the appropriate speed. You know what, try to squeze yourself through a very tight gap and see if you go in all directions like a wave. If you do, and if you SURVIVE that then you can begin doing real magic. Tunnel effect is next on the list, I guess. Schroedinger would be proud of you.
@lesperio "Read the Biggest secret by David icke" - no thanks, I don't read phony-balony mumbo jumbo. I rather read some more quantum physics and do some real magic with the appropriate equipment while you can read spells and dance around a bonfire with rods up your ass.
Note: a realist sees the borders of the possible. A simpleton believes that if there's something he cannot find it definitely exists and keeps searching against any reason. Well that's your job. Notify me when you find anything
@lesperio Techno-dicks? Out-dated science? You know, lesperio, when people speak of these things in such a self-assured, arrogant manner I expect them to base their arguments and conclusions on facts. Here's one fact - you obviously know nothing of science. And here's another - even if you read a million of books written by David Icke and similar authors you still won't be able to do anything I or anybody else can't, if not even less. Religions and your beliefs are based on faery tales.
@lesperio we do not wish to learn rubbish. if this *new* thing you are talking about is valid and can be proven over and over in a controlled testing, I think the world will be listening.
Dowsing isn't magic at all. I use dowsing rods to locate underground conduits on the estate I care for. Anyone can do it. Make your own rods and find your septic line when it's time for a pump out. A good dowser can locate the best spot to drill a well. Debunking dowsing is like debunking electricity, it's a waste of time.
we need more people like you MR.RANDI to counteract all those goddamn fundamentalist Christians out there polluting are public schools with their religious dogma
@theoddsender yes yes yes i call the bible ishkabible a word i made up that means fake bible. the bible is the silliest thing i have ever read, its full of rape slaughter incest and most of all woo woo aka nonsense, it boggles the mind that people will believe such woo woo that it goes as far as schools to teach "religion" religion should be taught in school only to be shown that its a fairy tale fake, if god is real why is god hiding where is jesus' body? where is mosses' body? the mind wonders
It's hard to imagine that anyone could Ever fall for Price's childish gimmicks, but I guess, if people believe hard enough, and refuse to question their conclusions, then anything is possible.
His hands were all over the damn place. Even walking back and forth could cause enough inertia to move the rods. A better demonstration would be to place the rods in a fixed object so they freely rotate and walk around them with a bucket of water to see if they follow. Of course, this has been tried and nothing happens. Does holding the rods somehow power them? A compass does not need to be held by a person for it to work.
thats called witching. its not magic. next time call the water company that works on his street to locate the line and i could promise you the pipe is right where he is getting the rods to turn.
The true test would be to give a dowser two rods and have an outside party hide whatever it is they claim the rods can help them find. Then let them go and if they can find it whatevers been hidden without honest to god luck or honest to god knowing where it is, then that would be a true test. And to outfit luck he'd have to repeat the test multiple times, items moved of course, and get them right every single time. Phenomina has never been proven correct. Although I still can't find Hoffa.
@hackwriter You don't base the reality of dowsing on the clown in the video. There's a long history of its effective use and the subject has been covered in many documentaries. Even the US military was trained to use it during the Vietnam War. I suggest you and others in this thread watch Arthur C.Clarke's 3 part documentary on the subject here on youtube at: watch?v=2ix1_aY18VQ
I just bent an unfolded coat hanger in order to try this. Looks like I have powers as well. Absolutely obvious, easily reproduced fraud. I love how this fraud rails against what he perpetrates (By suggesting Randi may be a fraud. Shame.)
James Randi is too smart for these clowns. Much more impressive than even his best magic tricks :-) Keep it up Mister Randi!
If Dowsers really do possess the ability to locate water, then perhaps they should travel to remote locations in the African continent and find it, where such a talent could actually be useful.
That's one heck of an amature video. The dowsing rods I believe are controlled by moving while walking as in the video however it would be interesting to see someone using a pendulum with sensors attatched to their hand to see if they are subconciously moving the pendulum.
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Dowsing does not work on mechanical principle, but rather on the sensitivity of a person. It is not absolute, like nothing is absolute. You people which have water, you can now argue about dowsing, but by centuries water has been found by dowsers in many countries. And many homes were happy for the dowser service, too many families lived for years, sometimes centuries due to dowser finding a water source. Now you can believe the old gay Mr. Randi, he debunks everything he does not understand.
LOL. Before Mr. Randi's explination, I had already caught on to what was going on. Geeze. At least get someone who knows how to do something amazing, like Criss Angel or something....Lol. I want to know how to goes under a trashcan and comes out on top of a building...see..THATS worth 1 million dollars, haha.
im sorry but how was that guy in the video doing anything special christ i could that wen i was 3 its BASIC (n i mean to emphasize basic) physics about equalibrium
This is the second video I have seen where you can clearly hear a "performance" car accelerating outside (4:42) . The room in which you film must be right near the road. And James Randi is the man!
There's an extent to which these frauds are allowed to roam free causing havock and dellusion to/in our societies, but there's an extent to which these frauds need to be stopped and their petty arrogance crushed.
As far as im concerned we give them all a 50.000.000 volt jolt , when they buy their lottery tickets ( because we all know they buy lottery tickets ^^ :)
But, It wouldn't be fair to just sweep them aside with them continueing to delude themselves. I want them to realize their mistakes and learn from it.
I do not claim that ideomotor theory is wrong, that thinking on a conscience/sub-conscience level causes minute muscle movement which in turn cause the hands to move. Yet the theory itself to some degree is limited, it does not consider other stimuli or why the sub-conscience mind would activate certain muscles. I still have to be open to the possibility that there is more to it than that... Remember that Scientific theories are being disproved or revised constantly.
@linz2d : The ideomotor effect theory is only about the way something one knows or some other mental state can affect subconscious movements, it would not have to take external stimuli into account.
For a proper test of dowsing ability it does not matter what is the source of the movement, as the test would just be whether or not the dowser can, in a properly controlled environment, locate objects without previous knowledge of their location.
@linz2d : It is a basic concept of the scientific process now employed that a hypotesis should be tested to the best ability of current knowledge before being accepted as a theory. This does, of course, carry a certain risk in that it may take longer for some theory to be accepted, but in the end it has been much more effective in futhering our understanding of the universe than the concept of accepting until disproven, this later approach tend to have a very poor signal to noise ratio.
So, if those rods are supposed to come together when over the circle, how come they don't react when he step backwards out of the circle? Also, not only does start exactly one step away from the circle, but he also extablishes that he has a "hit" without removing the glasses, thus implicitly admitting conscious knowledge of being on the circle.
For those serious devote sceptics out there, the ideo-motor effect is still "theory" and has not been proven, but don't let that stop you from using the phrase to ridicule people, I mean allot of the science out there is just theory... its even safe to say that "theory" is sciences equivalent to religion, until proven its just good guess.
@linz2d S: (n) theory (a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena)
It's a common mistake that a lot of people make when using the word theory. Most people seem to think theory simply means "an idea." That isn't the case, though. Gravity is also a theory, but I'm sure you wouldn't question gravity so much when slipping on an ice patch.
@RollTehSuidice Thanks, while I acknowledge explanation and the differences of the term "Theory", it still boils down to the best guess with the knowledge we have. Phenomena, which is an event that is observed and a Theory is the best way to explain that event, even though one does not truly understand what causes the event. Gravity, we know that mass causes gravity to attract objects to each other, but no one truly understand why... that's why there's more than one theory to explaining Gravity.
Pointing out the arm movement misses the whole basis of how the pendulum's used. The mind, of course, influences muscular response & therefore influences the direction in which the pendulum/rod moves. To suggest it shouldn't is a misunderstanding of the methodology & suggests an outside force should be moving them.
Genuine accuracy's with such tools is dependent on how neutral the mind of the dowser is. Are they allowing the unconscious part of their mind to influence the result or is their conscious mind, and expected results, getting in the way?
Hence why it can be so tricky to work with...and get consistent results...
If it worked, you wouldn't see oil companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on geologists, geophysicists, core libraries, exploration wells, 3D seismic, et cetera, et cetera.
Ah, another person challenged by the concept of motion! How every entertaining! :) "I didn't do that" - but of course you did! "I'm keeping it leveled" - no, no, you aren't, because nobody with a properly functioning body can! "I'm not moving my hands" - just as you move them... how very "ironic"! :)
As children find out playing, it takes very little energy to manipulate these things (weights or not; I'd love to see the physics concept behind these, by the way).
Keep up the good work, JREF! :)
SillyR0b 2 days ago
Your vid is popular on Saint Kitts and Nevis
acharylee77z 5 days ago
the roatating globe in the background is cool
MrEoinphelan 2 weeks ago 3
You know, Greg, umm ... never mind!
aNdYmAtTeR 1 month ago
lol, whats the use of the painted glasses if he knew the distance where the circle was?
ZZzzzzzWhat 1 month ago
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WirlWind494 3 weeks ago
@ZZzzzzzWhat Disregard my previous comment, I really need to start watching video's before I read / respond in comments.
I honestly thought this guy woulda been like atleast a few meters away with a smaller circle or something, but 1 step away? That's bloody laughable!
WirlWind494 3 weeks ago
@WirlWind494 lol true.
ZZzzzzzWhat 3 weeks ago
James Randi, what a wonderful man!
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"I can't possibly see through these!"
if you stepped back two steps, it's obvious that to reach the circle, you need to do the same in reverse, i.e. two steps forward
you don't need eyes for that at all
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alexgrinkov 2 months ago
Now this really made my morning enjoyable. ;)
429Cage 3 months ago
very sad, one isn't a dowser, the other has no idea what he is talking about, at the end both of them are taking legal action against each other. How pathetic.
At the end everything comes to money.
MrTomaszmaz 4 months ago
no this works i do it all the time. even works for electric lines. no magic or illusion Randi. try it yourself
CrapPolice 4 months ago
"I can't possibly see through these!"
Neither could Helen Keller or Master Po, and they got around just fine.
Obviously there's other senses involved besides vision-- like nystigmus, holographic hearing, proprioception, balance etc-- he's not "using the Force."
The problem is, most people don't know about these senses, so they fall deluded like this truffle-brain... and they get taken by con-artists and snake-oil peddlers as a result.
SovereignStatesman 5 months ago
"I DIDN'T DO THAT!"
Ok, Bart Simpson LOL
SovereignStatesman 5 months ago
James Randi is THE REAL GANDALF.
SovereignStatesman 5 months ago
Dowsing is a form of hypnosis by which a person can communicate with their sense of smell-- nothing more.
Like for finding water-- obviously a person can smell humid air, and air is more humid around water-sources as it diffuses up through the ground when sunlight hits.
In other words, it's an ART with a science behind it, that people didn't know back then. So like most religions, it's simply a traditional practice.
SovereignStatesman 5 months ago
I love this man.
xilix 5 months ago
and even if he does hold them level, if he steps forward the should move towards him. physics are cool.
Blackerer 6 months ago
@Blackerer
Dousing also can be done with a pendulum-- which is a common known form of self-hypnosis to determine subconscious beliefs and determinations. That's what ideomotor-practices are all about, subconscious responses.
SovereignStatesman 5 months ago
@SovereignStatesman interesting
Blackerer 5 months ago
@Blackerer
That's why dowsing WORKED-- they'd use "Divining Rods," typically a forked stick, by which "the gods would tell them where the water is" by "pulling down." However in reality it was an ideomotor indicator of subconscious perceptions of humidity in relation to other regions.
You'd do much better to simply train a Labrador retriever, of course; however dowsers actually BELIEVED that some divine influence was at work-- just like the doofus shown here thinks the rods are moving.
SovereignStatesman 5 months ago
2:30 CLEARLY MOVING HIS HANDS, HAHAHA.
mrfrosty8172 6 months ago 9
spiritualresearchfoundation org search for PEN-01 or dowsing.
An analysis on Effectiveness of Dowsing. Seems interesting
Anoop20111 6 months ago
the problem is that most of these people are not scammers, they just genuinely believe they have some power or other that makes them special, so no amount of logic can convince them. i just feel sorry for them. :|
selphiexfairy 6 months ago
@selphiexfairy Very few of them
the majority of people in the business of the supernatural are very aware about hat they are doing. I stress the word business, because it makes a hell of a lot of money
MrCorndogEater 6 months ago
@MrCorndogEater Hm, well I think the people who attempt his challenge are usually people who genuinely believe. If they knew they were fake, they wouldn't try to "prove" they were real (hence why all the big names never do). Obviously, if they're charging your for something, it's suspicious. But I'm sure there's probably a lot of people who don't have businesses that think they have powers, too. Actually, those are the people who are probably gonna get scammed by people who are lying!
selphiexfairy 6 months ago
i love this guy. i wish he was my grandpa, ......just so i can ask him to loan me the one million he has stashed away for the frauds. lol jk radi rocks!
rockbutt123 6 months ago
@rockbutt123 whoops i mean RANDI with the missing letter N ROCKS!!! lol
rockbutt123 6 months ago
he didn't do that? Okay...put it on a skateboard and roll it over
voneinemkindgefict 7 months ago
I can prove to you- beyond any reasonable shadow of a doubt- that dowsing is real, James Randi. You can keep all your money- no real dowser would want , need, or take it. You already KNOW that, though. Just give me full permission to completely dowse within your 'sacred space'. Well...???
1STONEDIVISION 7 months ago
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@1STONEDIVISION He will give you a million dollars if you can prove that.... Did you know this??
Adrianlunnon 7 months ago
@1STONEDIVISION Why don't you just take the 1 mil. and give it to charities?
Oh right, because you actually have to prove bullshit works
Keinlicht 7 months ago
lol james randi your a trip
HadarahLT 7 months ago
anyone can do dowsing..
HadarahLT 7 months ago
@absoluteabsence000 He doesn't try to debunk anything. If you do a bit of research he used to want to find evidence of the paranormal; it's just unfortunate that through testing it's always been found to be either a product of delusion or deceit.
James doesn't partake in many of the tests. They are tested blindly and without bias. If you want to ignore evidence then go ahead. You should realize though that people are getting hurt and even dying thanks to these repulsive, shameless thieves.
riggermortisify 7 months ago
its called wind and momentum due to movement of the body....
who the **** are these idiots???!!!!
911mastermind 8 months ago
He is moving his hands just to bring the dowses into a parallel direction. When he is start walking, he is not moving his arms. How much they pay you old man to meka people belive nothing?
Duluh 8 months ago
holy crap, it amazes me how people are so terrible at testing these "abilities" such as dowsing. The "controls" put in place are abysmal! seriously, most people learn about the ideomotor effect in 4th grade!
BarlowFilms 8 months ago
ideomotor is how dowsing works!the subconscious moves your body when your over your target.
besides ive done it myself many times.ive spun myself around with my eyes closed and made them point to north and it always works.ive even found buried metal i didnt even know was their so how is that possible?
spacestick1 8 months ago
You are a man searching for things in the wrong place, wears a pair of spectacles coated with the filter of materialism and conditioned mind. I feel sympathy for you. The old man has wasted a life time running behind things and he is left behind with the precious million dollar gift. One day he will realize that the truth he is tries to prove is beyond money and fame
Anoop20111 9 months ago
@Anoop20111 James Randi does a great job in helping protect the gullible from the greedy (and materialistic), shame more people don't listen to him.
AlxFitz 8 months ago 2
@AlxFitz I understand you. But he had done equally harm to mankind by disproving greater realities of universe. I would request you to do research on the fields of Pranic healing for knowing more. Visit the website spiritualresearchfoundation and learn practice and experience
Anoop20111 8 months ago
@Anoop20111 None of the people who make these ridiculous 'paranormal' claims can prove they really work under controlled conditions, so they're just liars and frauds or maybe deluded. Simples.
astrophonix 7 months ago
@astrophonix If you believe so then it will remain so for you, unless it is not. Every body has the capability to explore and find out things. It is up to you to believe in what you see in youtube or explore on your own honestly.
Anoop20111 7 months ago
@Anoop20111 Is that pathetic drivel you have spouted like the 'law of attraction' bullshit? The 'world is just a reflection of our state of mind' crapola? So you are given over to pure wishful thinking? The people who advocate this psychic rubbish are deluded or frauds, you must be in the deluded loser camp. You cannot prove what you believe is true, so you are compelled to make pathetic excuses for it to save face. Me, I love reality as it really is.
astrophonix 7 months ago
@astrophonix Your definition of reality is what your experience in life is and that is the truth for you agreed. But I would say you have experienced only one aspect of the reality and until you experience both aspects you will not get the full picture. Research of lives of people who came back to prosperity from very bad situations in life and listen to what they have to tell about their reality. Some examples are lives of Louise L Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King
Anoop20111 7 months ago
@Anoop20111 'Both' aspects of reality? What the real aspect and the unreal aspect? I read up on the great guys like the Dalai Lama, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Richard Feynman etc and take advice from these wise men, but I don't think they would say they live in another 'aspect' of reality as such. As Laurie Anderson (a female genius) said in Language is a Virus; "paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, MUCH better". Paradise is really a state of mind.
astrophonix 7 months ago
@astrophonix One aspect of reality is the perception on life as something beyond our control, how people behave to you and your experience from others has nothing to do with who you are, it's all about their characters and coincidence in life. You are a pawn and a victim who just live your life as it appears.
Anoop20111 7 months ago
@Anoop20111 Shit, for just a moment there I thought you might have a valid point, but you're just another self-righteous,ignorant, arrogant, judgmental asshole.
astrophonix 7 months ago
@astrophonix I believe most of the people who has interacted with you has the same opinion about you and had struggled hard to get your relationships better. Your statements reflects who you are and what your perception is about others who has a different opinion.
Anoop20111 7 months ago
@Anoop20111 I can see from the responses to your comments on other videos that I'm not the only one who thinks you're an arrogant self-righteous preachy asshole, you come across to everyone you encounter as a smug know-it-all who thinks you can talk down to everyone like you're some holy-than-thou superior super-enlightened god-like twat.
astrophonix 7 months ago
@astrophonix Brother, as we all know we are here to open up our minds and share our understanding. If I have hurt you in any manner, I'm sorry, I really did not intend to do any harm to anybody. I prefer to continue to share my experience, to the truth of my conscience rather than telling any philosophy. Why don't you share your understanding about things rather than abusing? If you feel I am not correct then isn't it not appropriate for you tell what is true to your understanding?
Anoop20111 7 months ago
@astrophonix Another aspect of reality is that what you see in the world as your life situations and experience from others is a reflection of your actions and beliefs about others. There are no coincidences in life. You look within rather than in others and outside world for the reasons for what is happening to you. You take life as an opportunity and what appears as failures as successive experiments in learning and towards success.
Anoop20111 7 months ago
This kind of people pretend to have an scientific mind but he is actually not interested in knowing the truth but denying the truth which brings more benefit and respect from followers. He is misleading people. He wont accept to experiment and learn new things about a different school of thought if does not have the opportunity to get a person for his show or his branding. Dont be foolish by taking him granted blindly
Anoop20111 9 months ago
Mr. Randi, have you ever taken two L-shaped wires and tried it yourself?
It's something that you can only understand if you try it yourself. Skeptics tend to file all testimony on it under the various ways they could be faked, but how many have actually tried it themselves?
I don't know about water, but I've found all kinds of stuff (pipes, tree roots, buried animals) with rods. If someone walks under them, they'll cross. They don't find everything but there is something to it.
randommagnum 9 months ago
the guy is an idiot. He should have been blindfolded, then spun around, and THEN used the rods.
this fake is a joke
Lance0Tiger 9 months ago
Dude *LOL* Your video kicks ass!!!
Shadowdemontwat 10 months ago
Dude *LOL* Your video kicks ass!!!
Shadowdemontwat 10 months ago
Better than Chuck Norris.
zSistine 10 months ago
how does the erath move in the back?
TheNewVideos 10 months ago
I have done this. My father looks for underground water lines to make a well. So I also tried and it did work! I did not think or choose where the lines should cross, they just moved on a surtian point and in the others they did not.
I dont know what this guy is actually doing, but I can not say, that this is totally fake.
And by the way - that must not be paranormal. It might be explained with simple physics. Is a compass also a witchcraft? A magnetic needle moving? no, it is physics.
TheNewVideos 10 months ago
people get wells 'witched' in northern ontario all the time. i don't know about dowsing. my parents had an old german guy witch our well, but ah it was cheap. lol
mard420 10 months ago
There is a cult which is in JREF, Quatloos, pro-government 9/11, pro-fed which are adept at name calling. All they do is name call, and hopes that you are not informed. They appear to spend a lot of time arguing on their forums, and you wonder if they have a job.
se7ensnakes 11 months ago
THE AMAZING Randi, he IS the man!
davidkglevi 11 months ago
debunkers make me laugh
toonyloons2006 11 months ago
In my country Jewish community demanded to stop demolition of old sport hall , because at same place told there was Jewish cemetry, they even get their own rabi-dowser (:D) to confirm that as argument (well it is nonsense). Thought few bones were found, then Jewish community protested, because they can let touch bones to confirm identity instead they offered a laser system. Of course sane people denied and court halted demolition. It would be funny if not sad.
chronius9 11 months ago
such a smart dude
eveplayer12 11 months ago
In order to debunk dousing, you have to understand how it works. All of you people obviously don't.
ASHuskyProductions92 11 months ago
@ASHuskyProductions92 For us to understand how it works, dowsing would have to work first.
jjqueiros 10 months ago
@jjqueiros Don't worry, it's not your fault that your mind is closed to wonder things. Modern society is a bitch. It would be pointless to try and explain things to people like you and Mr. Know-It-All...
ASHuskyProductions92 7 months ago
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@ASHuskyProductions92
Ok, why don't you tell me how it works?
Ideal1980 10 months ago
Having never heard of "dowsing" I laughed so hard at that demonstration! How is that anything like supernatural? It's not even a good magic trick!
AlexThomson1000 11 months ago
James Randi debunked dowsing in the early nineties, theres even a vid of it here on youtube
deathman1021 11 months ago
Fuck James Randi and his million dollars I aint you showing you muthafuckas shit... Jean Grey Xmen.
supreme12 1 year ago
165 are completely morons and frauds.
sastath 1 year ago 2
@sastath They just dont like his cool globe that i want
deathman1021 11 months ago
James Randi is a hero and I will curse the day that he leaves this place.
Nightrazr 1 year ago
any fallow up video of this?
steveboy35 1 year ago
"Otherwise James Randi admit you're a fraud and disband your organization." Oh that's a riot. As if he has conclusively shown ANYTHING on that video???
capoman1 1 year ago
Subconscious movements may not be the deciding factor of if dowsing is legit or not..The question might be can the subconscious mind detect or influence the world on a physical level. same with Remote Viewing. etc. A study of brainwaves frequencies percentage of accuracy over many tests and not just one test provides more substantial proof through percentages with multiple applicants and factors involved for comparisons,
HeroiKNinjA 1 year ago 2
owned
anzwertree 1 year ago
I misread the title of this video as "Dowsing, the Idiotomotor Effect". There is absolutely nothing these idiots can do that a trained magician, or someone like Derren Brown, cannot do. Which may explain why Randi's prize is still up for grabs. It may be all in the mind, but it's the SCIENCE of the mind, not hocus pocus and wish-fulfilment.
sulijoo 1 year ago
are these guys imune to embarassment?
cuscardo 1 year ago 26
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LMAO MR PRICE IS AWESOME.
crabbit87 1 year ago
LMAO MR PRICE IS AWESOME
crabbit87 1 year ago
What the hell is wrong with idiots like this? Not you Mr. Randi, I mean Mr. Price.
Lanparth 1 year ago
Hey for a million bucks Ill make up some crazy as shit and at least try to squeak it by, no harm in trying. Well other than you look like an ass. But what guy doesn't look like an ass walking around with two stupid ass sticks with levels attached to them claiming to "douse".
MrCelebelly 1 year ago
haha i love this guy
soulstargy 1 year ago
Funny how the application misspelled dowsing. Keep up the good work, Mr. Randi.
NovaSperadon 1 year ago
People want to believe these things. I usually perform a test on people involving gelatine-based candy, like gummy bears of different colors. People insist that different colors taste differently, but somehow they are never able to tell when they are blindfolded. You'd think that this test reveals to people that they make these assumptions about taste based on the color alone, and renounce their superstition on taste - but it never does. It turns out that people are fundemental candy-believers.
dalsgaard12 1 year ago
While I agree with James Randi 99% of the time I have seen dowsing work in order to detect pipes and air ducts concealed beneath beneath floor boards or in the ceiling of a building (by people who have no knowledge of where the air duct, or pipes are located in the building. I can only assume that finding an underground spring works in the same way.
SupraJulie 1 year ago
@SupraJulie So there are no standards, no rules, no common practices in mounting ventilation pipes? Do they throw dice or something when they decide where to mount them? : )
winterstellar 1 year ago
@winterstellar I didn't say that there weren't. I don't know where those places are, and dowsing has worked for me in such a way playing around. I don't think that it's miraculous that dowsing works for these things. I just think that dowsing isn't very well understood (especially by dowsers).
SupraJulie 1 year ago
"You can clearly see I did not do that" he says. While doing that. Ouch.
un2mensch 1 year ago
this guy with these friking rods is a joke... James Randi is the really amazing...
MrDougmoreira 1 year ago 27
@MrDougmoreira
James Randi isn't amazing. I'm sure if you told him he was amazing, he would say he's just as amazing as any skeptic out there. You're as amazing as James and so am I. Don't forget.
Chunnyie 3 months ago
@MrDougmoreira
James Randi isn't amazing. I'm sure if you told him he was amazing, he would say he's just as amazing as any skeptic out there. You're as amazing as James and so am I. Don't forget.
Chunnyie 3 months ago
@Chunnyie Well, seeing as he went by the stage name THE AMAZING RANDI for many years, I think he might be ok with someone calling him amazing.
voorface 3 months ago
james learn kung fu and kick the shit out of this guy.
FUwogs 1 year ago
How is James Randi a fraud? He offers a million dollar prize to someone who can do something as simple as complete a definite test.
GosuVu 1 year ago
Mr. Randi, you once again are calling a spade a spade. This incredibility stupid man has to/needs to believe in this hocuspocus bullsh_t. May Mohamed, Santa, and his sex gang children forgive everyone of their stupidity. lol
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lesperio 1 year ago
@lesperio
MrDougmoreira 1 year ago
@lesperio MEDIOCRE IDIOT... WHY DON'T YOU STICK THE PSYCHICS UP YOUR ASS!!!
MrDougmoreira 1 year ago
@lesperio I bet you would call lightning a "supernatural thing". What quantum physics describes no man can do, unless you can move the way particles do, with the appropriate speed. You know what, try to squeze yourself through a very tight gap and see if you go in all directions like a wave. If you do, and if you SURVIVE that then you can begin doing real magic. Tunnel effect is next on the list, I guess. Schroedinger would be proud of you.
ExClUr 1 year ago
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lesperio 1 year ago
@lesperio "Read the Biggest secret by David icke" - no thanks, I don't read phony-balony mumbo jumbo. I rather read some more quantum physics and do some real magic with the appropriate equipment while you can read spells and dance around a bonfire with rods up your ass.
Note: a realist sees the borders of the possible. A simpleton believes that if there's something he cannot find it definitely exists and keeps searching against any reason. Well that's your job. Notify me when you find anything
ExClUr 1 year ago
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lesperio 1 year ago
@lesperio Techno-dicks? Out-dated science? You know, lesperio, when people speak of these things in such a self-assured, arrogant manner I expect them to base their arguments and conclusions on facts. Here's one fact - you obviously know nothing of science. And here's another - even if you read a million of books written by David Icke and similar authors you still won't be able to do anything I or anybody else can't, if not even less. Religions and your beliefs are based on faery tales.
ExClUr 1 year ago
@lesperio we do not wish to learn rubbish. if this *new* thing you are talking about is valid and can be proven over and over in a controlled testing, I think the world will be listening.
lcw1980 1 year ago
Dowsing isn't magic at all. I use dowsing rods to locate underground conduits on the estate I care for. Anyone can do it. Make your own rods and find your septic line when it's time for a pump out. A good dowser can locate the best spot to drill a well. Debunking dowsing is like debunking electricity, it's a waste of time.
phatpurrly 1 year ago
@phatpurrly Debunking dowsing is like debunking homeopathy. It's easy and it's obvious.
JejunumJake 1 year ago
JAMES RANDI is the man!!!
keep up the good work
we need more people like you MR.RANDI to counteract all those goddamn fundamentalist Christians out there polluting are public schools with their religious dogma
theoddsender 1 year ago
@theoddsender yes yes yes i call the bible ishkabible a word i made up that means fake bible. the bible is the silliest thing i have ever read, its full of rape slaughter incest and most of all woo woo aka nonsense, it boggles the mind that people will believe such woo woo that it goes as far as schools to teach "religion" religion should be taught in school only to be shown that its a fairy tale fake, if god is real why is god hiding where is jesus' body? where is mosses' body? the mind wonders
floridaman2000 1 year ago
It's hard to imagine that anyone could Ever fall for Price's childish gimmicks, but I guess, if people believe hard enough, and refuse to question their conclusions, then anything is possible.
86adamleon 1 year ago
hahaha mr price hopefully gets counter sued for wasting peoples time
sonpat11 1 year ago
hahaha mr price hopefully geets counter sued for wasting peoples time
sonpat11 1 year ago
Haha. He has a copy of Golden Dawn on his bookshelf.
That's like a major occult/astrology/witchcraft thing.
It's good to see that he's researching the opposition to such an extent. Though I wouldn't expect anything less.
CrazyToastie 1 year ago
I love those eyebrows
msinummoc 1 year ago
Yes, interesting, James Randi have a "Golden Dawn" book. By the way, Dowsing works....even in Sweden.
Contributionism 1 year ago
jesus
hellraiser313 1 year ago
His hands were all over the damn place. Even walking back and forth could cause enough inertia to move the rods. A better demonstration would be to place the rods in a fixed object so they freely rotate and walk around them with a bucket of water to see if they follow. Of course, this has been tried and nothing happens. Does holding the rods somehow power them? A compass does not need to be held by a person for it to work.
teejaynumber13 1 year ago
He is the woman
duranski1 1 year ago
thats called witching. its not magic. next time call the water company that works on his street to locate the line and i could promise you the pipe is right where he is getting the rods to turn.
darthpaul123 1 year ago
thats called witching. you do that to find voids in the ground like piping. its not magic lmao. obviously there is a sewer or water line down there.
darthpaul123 1 year ago
The last minute of him talking was just a huge "Oh snap!" moment.
reddeth23 1 year ago
@cody1800212 *facepalm* I suggest that you look up the word "science". You're using it wrong.
tvsinesperanto 1 year ago
@cody1800212 I made a video response to this in which I have my niece and nephew test dowsing, I would like your opinion on the matter. Thank you :)
Subfightr 1 year ago
The true test would be to give a dowser two rods and have an outside party hide whatever it is they claim the rods can help them find. Then let them go and if they can find it whatevers been hidden without honest to god luck or honest to god knowing where it is, then that would be a true test. And to outfit luck he'd have to repeat the test multiple times, items moved of course, and get them right every single time. Phenomina has never been proven correct. Although I still can't find Hoffa.
KronantheBarbarian 1 year ago
lol, dowser douche calling Randi a fraud. hilarious.
as said before, James Randi is the man.
AnimationArcade 1 year ago
People who believe in dowsing rods need to have their reproductive organs removed.
hackwriter 1 year ago
@hackwriter You don't base the reality of dowsing on the clown in the video. There's a long history of its effective use and the subject has been covered in many documentaries. Even the US military was trained to use it during the Vietnam War. I suggest you and others in this thread watch Arthur C.Clarke's 3 part documentary on the subject here on youtube at: watch?v=2ix1_aY18VQ
Elhardt 1 year ago
how can this guy have the cheek to call randi a fraud what a moppet!
nikelover1994 1 year ago
GOOD VID
micmoable 1 year ago
I just bent an unfolded coat hanger in order to try this. Looks like I have powers as well. Absolutely obvious, easily reproduced fraud. I love how this fraud rails against what he perpetrates (By suggesting Randi may be a fraud. Shame.)
James Randi is too smart for these clowns. Much more impressive than even his best magic tricks :-) Keep it up Mister Randi!
budwheizzah 1 year ago
"Not moving my hands."? You damn well are, cabron.
mackeymkay 1 year ago
"I can't possibly see through these painted goggles that the line is two steps in front of me."
What a rube.
chrisose 1 year ago
I don't understand why people are even trying to claim this price. They are only making fools of themselves, like this guy just did.
TirianB 1 year ago
If Dowsers really do possess the ability to locate water, then perhaps they should travel to remote locations in the African continent and find it, where such a talent could actually be useful.
SamonMarquis 1 year ago
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featheredmusic 1 year ago
That's one heck of an amature video. The dowsing rods I believe are controlled by moving while walking as in the video however it would be interesting to see someone using a pendulum with sensors attatched to their hand to see if they are subconciously moving the pendulum.
pinkygirl1999 1 year ago
my favorite dowser that Randi debunked was Michael Faraday
it was also another time when Arthur C Clarke debunked Randi.
watch?v=haqr_72NTY4
watch?v=yVDHKKTC4tA
watch?v=VhWQ-r1LYXY
AfterFauve001 1 year ago
Mr. Price just got bitch-slapped back to plumbing work. *bites knuckle*
F33bs 1 year ago 3
ZOMG MAGIC GLOBE IN THE BACKGROUND!
jgordon707 1 year ago
Came here for the ideomotor search...stayed for the awesome bearded bloke who knows his shit
DevilsExperiment 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Dowsing does not work on mechanical principle, but rather on the sensitivity of a person. It is not absolute, like nothing is absolute. You people which have water, you can now argue about dowsing, but by centuries water has been found by dowsers in many countries. And many homes were happy for the dowser service, too many families lived for years, sometimes centuries due to dowser finding a water source. Now you can believe the old gay Mr. Randi, he debunks everything he does not understand.
BosnianReality 1 year ago
LOL. Before Mr. Randi's explination, I had already caught on to what was going on. Geeze. At least get someone who knows how to do something amazing, like Criss Angel or something....Lol. I want to know how to goes under a trashcan and comes out on top of a building...see..THATS worth 1 million dollars, haha.
hinduw 1 year ago
James Randi is the man.
IrishMarc1 1 year ago 108
@IrishMarc1 Ya the foolish man with ego of "I know how things work". Involved in making others foolish
Anoop20111 9 months ago
im sorry but how was that guy in the video doing anything special christ i could that wen i was 3 its BASIC (n i mean to emphasize basic) physics about equalibrium
xierotron 1 year ago
This is the second video I have seen where you can clearly hear a "performance" car accelerating outside (4:42) . The room in which you film must be right near the road. And James Randi is the man!
planetsareoverrated 1 year ago
Mister Randi, there's a dutch saying:
Dont argue with a madman
I think it applies here, for the dowser
partyshock 1 year ago
@partyshock
There's an extent to which these frauds are allowed to roam free causing havock and dellusion to/in our societies, but there's an extent to which these frauds need to be stopped and their petty arrogance crushed.
WatchCharmedOnline 1 year ago 48
@WatchCharmedOnline
oh i agree
As far as im concerned we give them all a 50.000.000 volt jolt , when they buy their lottery tickets ( because we all know they buy lottery tickets ^^ :)
partyshock 1 year ago
@partyshock
lol. Well, It would be "fun".
But, It wouldn't be fair to just sweep them aside with them continueing to delude themselves. I want them to realize their mistakes and learn from it.
WatchCharmedOnline 1 year ago
I can prove that I can see the future. This application for the prize will be rejected. $1million please.
Jadurs 1 year ago
yeah, I saw those elbows flapping :P
Naddig74 1 year ago
I do not claim that ideomotor theory is wrong, that thinking on a conscience/sub-conscience level causes minute muscle movement which in turn cause the hands to move. Yet the theory itself to some degree is limited, it does not consider other stimuli or why the sub-conscience mind would activate certain muscles. I still have to be open to the possibility that there is more to it than that... Remember that Scientific theories are being disproved or revised constantly.
linz2d 1 year ago
@linz2d : The ideomotor effect theory is only about the way something one knows or some other mental state can affect subconscious movements, it would not have to take external stimuli into account.
For a proper test of dowsing ability it does not matter what is the source of the movement, as the test would just be whether or not the dowser can, in a properly controlled environment, locate objects without previous knowledge of their location.
tr41 1 year ago
@linz2d : It is a basic concept of the scientific process now employed that a hypotesis should be tested to the best ability of current knowledge before being accepted as a theory. This does, of course, carry a certain risk in that it may take longer for some theory to be accepted, but in the end it has been much more effective in futhering our understanding of the universe than the concept of accepting until disproven, this later approach tend to have a very poor signal to noise ratio.
tr41 1 year ago
So, if those rods are supposed to come together when over the circle, how come they don't react when he step backwards out of the circle? Also, not only does start exactly one step away from the circle, but he also extablishes that he has a "hit" without removing the glasses, thus implicitly admitting conscious knowledge of being on the circle.
KungPisstank 1 year ago
ohh not shit the things are moving, he walks forward thats why that move! that dowsing is fake
ThaDK00 1 year ago
For those serious devote sceptics out there, the ideo-motor effect is still "theory" and has not been proven, but don't let that stop you from using the phrase to ridicule people, I mean allot of the science out there is just theory... its even safe to say that "theory" is sciences equivalent to religion, until proven its just good guess.
linz2d 1 year ago
@linz2d
Please Google search the difference between theory as used in casual conversation and scientific theory.
You are using the term incorrectly
ViciousRanger 1 year ago
@linz2d S: (n) theory (a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena)
It's a common mistake that a lot of people make when using the word theory. Most people seem to think theory simply means "an idea." That isn't the case, though. Gravity is also a theory, but I'm sure you wouldn't question gravity so much when slipping on an ice patch.
RollTehSuidice 1 year ago
@RollTehSuidice Thanks, while I acknowledge explanation and the differences of the term "Theory", it still boils down to the best guess with the knowledge we have. Phenomena, which is an event that is observed and a Theory is the best way to explain that event, even though one does not truly understand what causes the event. Gravity, we know that mass causes gravity to attract objects to each other, but no one truly understand why... that's why there's more than one theory to explaining Gravity.
linz2d 1 year ago
Pointing out the arm movement misses the whole basis of how the pendulum's used. The mind, of course, influences muscular response & therefore influences the direction in which the pendulum/rod moves. To suggest it shouldn't is a misunderstanding of the methodology & suggests an outside force should be moving them.
lochmabon 1 year ago
@lochmabon
Genuine accuracy's with such tools is dependent on how neutral the mind of the dowser is. Are they allowing the unconscious part of their mind to influence the result or is their conscious mind, and expected results, getting in the way?
Hence why it can be so tricky to work with...and get consistent results...
lochmabon 1 year ago
@lochmabon ...either that or it doesn't work.
at all.
H31MU7 1 year ago
james randi is awesome
poolmunch 1 year ago
dowsing is a way of the water driller to pick a good shady spot!
semiLivedj 1 year ago
If dowsing worked, you could put the rods on a cart and scoot them around. That would be the only way to eliminate human effects.
goneutt 1 year ago
@goneutt
If it worked, you wouldn't see oil companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on geologists, geophysicists, core libraries, exploration wells, 3D seismic, et cetera, et cetera.
UdallIn72 1 year ago