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James Randi and a Dowser



Uploaded by: UncleFeedle
Video Description:
A dowser gives a demonstration of his professed powers and fails.
Dowsing (also known as 'divining' and 'water-witching') is the claimed ability to locate water, oil, minerals, objects, locations, missing persons etc. using such objects as a metal rod, a pair of bent wires, a forked stick, a pendulum or the open hands.
In controlled tests, dowsing fails every time. Dowsing is actually nothing more than an example of the 'ideomotor effect' - a known psychological phenomenon in which the dowser moves/tips the dowsing apparatus entirely unconsciously, giving the powerful illusion that the device moves of its own accord.
This is also the explanation behind the ouija board and automatic writing.
The effect is clearly visible in this video. At 1.48 you can actually see his hand shaking the rod from side to side. Since this is happening unconsciously, he isn't aware he is doing it and so firmly believes that the rod is moving on its own.
From episode 4 of 'James Randi - Psychic Investigator' (1991)


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If you're an astute ... ( 1 month ago by neiana)
If you're an astute watcher, you can see that he actually spins the rod.
watch on boxes 4 ... ( 3 weeks ago by AaronOptx)
watch on boxes 4 and 7, right before the rod starts spinning, he tucks his elbow up higher on the body. super bogus.
yeah it's really ... ( 3 weeks ago by Fragenzeichenplatte)
yeah it's really obvious
heh, using ... ( 3 weeks ago by z10901)
heh, using divination to locate a video game cartridge =).
Oh...I thought it ... ( 3 weeks ago by z10901)
Oh...I thought it was natural "energies" doing that...=P
It is natural ... ( 3 weeks ago by neiana)
It is natural energy...the natural energy of his wrist. ;)
i love how he ... ( 2 weeks ago by vvabi)
i love how he doesn't give the candidates any chance to justify for themselves... and he's so damn friendly, only makes them look more stupid...
and why is that arrow at 2:50 hovering above number 2... psychic video?
James Randi lays ... ( 2 weeks ago by Gart117)
James Randi lays out the conditions that are necessary to make sure there is no tampering, and that there can be no doubt that the person can do what they claim to be able to do. This guy knew the conditions, knew what he had to do, knew what the chance was according to science. He failed and there is no excuse that I can see in this situation.
Im happy he doesn't give people allot of time to explain themselves. It just gives them the chance to further deceive people.
and thats one of ... ( 2 weeks ago by Gart117)
and thats one of the lessons ive learned through allot of randis experiments. People are really good actors, more so then I thought.
Perhaps they shot ... ( 1 week ago by chrisofnottingham)
Perhaps they shot the video first and then put the arrow on afterwards. Technology, it's amazing.
I wonder if this ... ( 1 week ago by doobedoo22)
I wonder if this guy really believed that he could 'dowse', or if he was just an attention-seeker?
Even I could shake ... ( 1 week ago by garrettkirkthompson)
Even I could shake a stick better than that. You can see the guy's whole forearm moving, what a tool.
Array ( 1 week ago by Cacadore)
Still your mind & your smell and hearing get more sensitive. Then, when you can train your fingers to react as your senses react, you can use the rod to give you physical feedback on minute stimulai from the environment affecting your sub-consious. So, one could imagine how it could be used to sense the slight changes in humidity and foliage that give away the presence of underground water, for example, which is what dowsing was traditionally used for. Nothing magical, but worth looking at.
Wish I could ... ( 5 days ago by TheBronzeDog)
Wish I could remember where I read a quote about water dowsing that went something like this:
"Dowsing is the art of a guy with a stick looking for a depression with greener plants."
And slightly softer ... ( 4 days ago by Cacadore)
And slightly softer underfoot!
They should have ... ( 2 days ago by Scyko8)
They should have done this test outside. Studio equipment disrupts electro magnetic fields which is key for the dowser. The guy probably never realized that he was set up to fail. He works for a company to dowse for minerals and gets paid to do it, so his success rate must be better than chance.
1. The dowser ... ( 2 days ago by UncleFeedle)
1. The dowser agreed to the conditions of the test in advance. 2. The fact that people pay him to do it doesn't prove anything. 3. How would you explain the total failure of dowsing under controlled tests conducted outdoors?
Randi only has one ... ( 2 days ago by Scyko8)
Randi only has one job and that is to keep the closed mind closed. The military had even used dowsing as well as remote viewing. Now don't get me wrong I couldn't tell you the success rate they had, but what I do know is that Randi has debunked things that are real ability, and that in it self bebunks Randi. Science is now beginning to search in that direction with quantim mechanics and M-Theory which is the connection to everything. 3: controled test are the problem and disrupts the EMF.
The military's test ... ( 2 days ago by UncleFeedle)
The military's test of remote viewing was known as Stargate. The project was a total failure. It failed to provide any positive results and was finally scrapped after 20 million dollars had been sunk into it. If dowsing really worked, why don't they use it to locate landmines and IED's? No dowser has ever been able to do what they claim under conditions in which they cannot cheat or be mistaken, and under conditions that they themselves agree to in advance and are free of interference.
I know about ... ( 2 days ago by Scyko8)
I know about Stargate and it wasn't a total failure, there were quite a few positive results. The project was stopped after the CIA took over the research.Landmines are you kidding, no one has ever claimed that dowsing is 100% accurate. This is what I noticed when I watched the video. He stopped relying on the stick after the 2nd try and picked the correct box out right, because he already knew where it was and just didn't trust his gut feeling, and that is what dowsing is. Watch it again .
In remote viewing, ... ( 1 day ago by UncleFeedle)
In remote viewing, the negative results far outnumber the positive results (obtained through chance), but its practioners focus on the hits and ignore the equally significant misses. This is known as confirmation bias. Similarly, the dowser shown here gets exactly what would be expected by random chance alone. You could choose the correct box by throwing dice and have the same chance of success. Dowsing has been tested many times and fails on every occasion. It's total self-deception.
So you've tried it ... ( 1 day ago by Scyko8)
So you've tried it then?
Yes, along with ... ( 1 day ago by UncleFeedle)
Yes, along with astrology, psychokinesis, ESP, astral projection, levitation, precognition, scrying, psychometry, numerology, graphology and tarot cards. Even so, whether or not I've personally tried it is irrelevant. All serious tests of dowsing have resulted in failure.
Testing is relevant ... ( 1 day ago by UncleFeedle)
Testing is relevant if you want to know whether dowsing is real or not. If you choose to believe in something that has no evidence to indicate it has any basis in reality, that's your privilege. I prefer to be as certain as I can about the world around me.



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