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Originally posted by Vanitas
It may be "anecdotal" - and by definition it is - to all those who weren't there. Whether anecdotal reports should be disregarded - especially a priori, as it is done in pseudo-scientific circles, is a different question altogether...
More importantly, though - because it refers specifically to the experience related by the poster (and hence to my reply) - the person who experienced this first-hand doesn't need any studies to "confirm" what he/she SAW...
And by the way: EVERY evaluation of anything is "purely subjective"...
Originally posted by Sky watcher
Try it, It works. Are you to busy to step outside with a metal coat hanger cut in two? Why sit here and argue about it when many people including myself can do it and would prove it to you if you were here. Science has explained how it works most Scientist just doubt it because they are ignorant.
Originally posted by Sky watcher
I call BS on this one. Dowsing is to find water not holes, I know I can do it. It was a gift handed down to me from my grandfather. I used it to find my sewer line that ran out of my house. If the Sheriff did use dowsing he was picking up the water in her body. I hope they fry the person responsible for killing that young woman and her baby.
Originally posted by LuDaCrIs
Originally posted by Vanitas
The brain is subject to many fallacies, which is why anecdotal evidence is not scientific. If this phenomenon is real, then wouldn't you expect "dowsers" to be able to perform such feats under objective circumstances, where anecdotal evidence is disregarded? Guess how many times "dowsers" have failed to find water under scientific parameters? EVERYTIME! How do you explain that?This is just not true! That's why science has double blind testing and the scientific method. I suggest you read up on that.
And by the way: EVERY evaluation of anything is "purely subjective"...
[edit on 15-1-2008 by LuDaCrIs]
I can guarantee that I will and can find water underground using Dowsing. Scientist always bash what they don't understand. I have better things to do than to sit here and try to BS you about it. I have used it and it works for me and I only tried it when I needed to find my sewer pipe in my yard when I couldn't find it any other way, I remembered my grandmother telling me how my grandfather could dowse and helped people find places to dig wells that way. So I tried it and found my pipe when I and my friend who is a plumber with a probe stick could not find it any other way.
[edit on 26-1-2008 by Sky watcher]
Originally posted by Sky watcher
I can guarantee that I will and can find water underground using Dowsing.
Scientist always bash what they don't understand.
I have better things to do than to sit here and try to BS you about it. I have used it and it works for me and I only tried it when I needed to find my sewer pipe in my yard when I couldn't find it any other way, I remembered my grandmother telling me how my grandfather could dowse and helped people find places to dig wells that way. So I tried it and found my pipe when I and my friend who is a plumber with a probe stick could not find it any other way.