Randi debunks a dowser

Leftius

If that is false, then how precise are past live findings that we get while we are dowsing? I don't believe in dowsing.

Brian

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

Brian

The longer something remains buried the greater becomes its magnetic influence? The dowser that does not fully understand his tools is not a real dowser.

Brian

dil·et·tante

ˌdiliˈtänt,-ˈtäntē/

noun

1. a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

   "a dilettante approach to science"

   synonyms:

   dabbler, amateur, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, layman, layperson "there is no room for the dilettante in this business"

   • archaic

     a person with an amateur interest in the arts.

Brian

Einstein himself respected dowsing and what it implied. He said: “I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.”

But Randi was not testing dowsing - only the claims of a so-called dowser who clearly does not understand the limitations of dowsing when quantified by conventional measuring standards.

Leftius

So you are saying that the man in the video didn't know what he was truly doing? When did you start dowsing? How do you know that you can use a pendulum let's say professionally?

Brian

Leftius

How does that pertain to dowsing? Shit, Brian, you are so elusive!

Brian

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”