Dowsing is Still Fake

Steve responds to TikTok claims about dowsing.

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[fisk]

But in Fritz Lang's 1929 moon landing movie "Woman in the moon", they use dowsing to find water on the moon! How do you refute that?!

[mjowsey]

Steve taking time to explain away this stuff is priceless. Thanks for all you do ❤

[ddewittfulton]

It's the same as those fun little games you might play as a kid at a sleep-over or beside the campfire. One popular one was to place a ring on a necklace, then suspend it between your fingers above a "yes" and "now" written in the dirt. Then take turns asking yes/no questions. The ring would swing back and forth, "favoring" the yes or the no, thus finding out whether Craig would marry Lana one day or if the Dodgers will go to the World Series that year. Minutes of fun for the entire clan.

[clausstoiber]

This is one piece of junk pseudo-science that seems to be hard to explain and get through to several otherwise mostly rational people I know. I just can't get through to them. the usual response is, "well, it worked for me when I was looking for water on my property". No acknowledgement of either blind luck or the fact that in a lot of places, you can drill a well almost anywhere and eventually hit water. Definitely a case of counting the hits and ignoring the misses.

[Jeremy-dfld]

I couldn't help but laugh at how well Steve's head fits the logo!

[lunxr_egg]

I’m totally willing to believe in something inexplicable, but only if the other possibilities don’t make as much sense. Even without testing, there’s no way it could work. The rods can apparently be any material, the ´skill’ can’t be learned, and a huge part of the defense is ´yeah sometimes it doesn’t work’. 🤔

[Jtexy]

Nice. Again. Someone needs to sort the thumbnail of Steve😀

[maize]

Very interesting! I had thought that dowsing only referred to finding water with rods like this.

[kylekelly]

You must never see workers locate water pipes that are plastic with no tracker wire.

[bradwarfield]

While I'm not a "skeptic" as a part of my personality, I certainly incorporate it into anything I don't understand completely, until I do. My experience with dowsing was remarkably interesting for a while, until they proved to be unreliable eventually, as it relates to asking questions and "yes/no" answers, you just can't trust them ultimately. I can't say they don't work for things like pointing to magnetized or ionic elements of the earth since they are copper and you are electric by nature etc.., but you're better-off trusting your own intuition than you are these things. They tend to just confirm your own biases and truths, almost as if "that" is what they are picking-up on (if anything) - "you" - not something external, your subconscious mind is doing the work here I think, if anything at all that is otherwise non-scientific to us.

[solomonkehinde]

As a geologist from Nigeria, I use theses rods everyday and they work. They make my work easy and very I can get you water with those.

[stemson]

"in its modern incarnation" nice and subtle there. (y)

[wateryearthdowsingsolutions]

Until you do a course with an open mind and practise you will not discover what you are capable of.

[badassserbboy]

i hate tiktok stars using L shaped rods for clout, they arent supposed to be used for yes or no, for yes or no questions you use plumb bob. L shaped rods are used to determine the way that underground water is flowing

[Dolce_Piccante]

He proves it fake while no single rod in his hand

[galloe]

When will science make dowsing work? I’ve heard all these promises that one day I will finally be able to use sticks to find water.

I’m going to wear so much turquoise on my snake skin dust kickers, with my mini dream catcher earrings, but also black guy liner as to look like I’m not only one with the land, but that I also understand angsty young people.

Please science, give me real life magic sticks so that people don’t think I’m a scammer because the closest I’ve come to finding liquid was an unusually wet tire pile buried an old sage covered lot.

I mean it gets hot out in the sage, and those tires where wet, and full of the precious life that lives in warm, well shaded stagnated pools of water.

That time, I think it worked because there was water in the tire pile, and I mean I looked for water a lot, but the only time I found it was in those old tires.

You know what? I changed my mind, I’m actually pretty good at this.

Science stay the hell away from my water finding skills!

[wateryearthdowsingsolutions]

I have had plenty of experiences that prove dowsing works to me and my employers.

[PistolsMcGee]

I know it’s totally fake, but if I needed to dig a well for some reason i’m still gonna walk around with a willow branch.

[michaelfercik]

Learn how wrong you are. Study the book, The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition. Who knows, maybe you can actually learn something before voicing your wrong non physics knowledge. How wrong you are, you just don't know it

[fredfarquar]

“Don’t throw out the baby with the bath.” The copper rods? Yeah, anything with those is pretty much what your analysis states.
However….my father’s friend did business as a water-finder and well-driller in Montana. He used two 6’ curved polyethylene dowels taped together at one end and two feet up, making a ‘y-shape’, and he showed me the effect was real!! We wrapped one arm around each other, the dowel ends in the other hands, palms up, the taped end curving upward, and walked toward where he had just finished drilling a well. I carefully noted how he gripped the dowel. As we drew near the well, the taped end dropped strongly downward, and I twisted upward as hard as I could to try to keep the taped ends up, to no avail; I looked at his hand, and he was doing the same! But the taped ends still forced downward at the well. Then he told me to unwrap my arm from around him and he did the same. As soon as contact between us was broken, the taped ends sprang upward to their original position!
The man was known throughout the Bitterroot Valley as THE one to go to if you needed a water well put in, and had never dug a dry well. I had always been extremely skeptical of dowsing, but he proved to me that some (rare!) people DO have a natural ability. Do not dismiss it out of hand; he didn’t know how it worked for him, it just…did!