The "Enchanted Twig"

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I think this hi-tech dowsing/divining rod cost, like, in the thousands.

Just because someone is totally rich doesn't mean that (I wanna say smart, but that's not true...) they are baddass skeptics; and of course...that is a straw man (insert the laugh that says "I'm smarter than you (but you have mo' money, but who cares))." I won't name any names (the initials are M.M.) but someone in my home county believes in them thar divining rod things. Isn't that a blast from the past. I recall seeing it on That's Incredible, or something like that-probably after watching that Bigfoot thing, was it Fran Tarkenton. OK, I side tracked...anyhoo...


It's hard for me to believe that we're 12 hours away from 2013, and I'm totally confident we'll/I/you/me/us make it, that the peeps still believe in the water witchery. In case ya don't know dowsing is...

"(Blank blank) is standing in the middle of his vineyard, talking to two copper rods.

"Find water, " he tells them as he walks slowly down a row of vines holding the rods pointed in front of him. 

As if possessed the rods starts moving until they cross over one another. "Here, he says. "Here's where the water is."

(Thanks SF Gate)

That is what dowsing is.

Various materials have been used throughout the (is it) centuries like twigs, wood, metal-ish stuffs, copper, it could have been a pendulum or a forked, err, twig to find a whhhhooooolllllle biggin' variety of stuff. The divine(ing) rod has been used to find water, minerals, probably gold, missing persons, that one lost sock, that one lost glove (jk), you know where I'm going with this...panacea (your skeptic meter should be going off). Did I say golf balls. It can find golf balls, yo.

The thing about it isssss...there is hella water under ground and the likeliness of digging/drilling for water, and succeeding, is pretty good.

The US Geological Survey (yes, THAT one), "Some water exists under the Earth's surface almost everywhere." And they go on to say, and this is important, that "No single technique suffices to locate favorable water well sites." Team Skeptic, as you know...that doesn't stop them.

As with the case's of Claire and her Voyance, and Extra *Special* People (what ever those are) the *fuel* to make the witchy water money stick work is...teh divine (insert angels singing). Divination. Magic. Woo. Fake. Not existent. No Beuno.


What does exist, and this is alllllwwwwwaaaayyyyyyyys the case, is the super prevalent and full of err, the personal testimonial. The hard cold truth is that not everyone has critical thinking skills. I'm sorry. Not that I wouldn't have a beer with Joe Average, but sheezzzz man, you don't have to be a rocket scientist or even just a brain surgeon, to just look at it and see how kookie this is.

Check out this legit video.


Bonus rod coverage. It can doooooo anything.

 LOOK AT IT. Fuck, people in the olden days knew it was bogus (1). It doesn't have a valid scientific explanation. No one can explain how it works, or the mechanisms involved, not even the practitioners It is just plain and simple...magic.

J.F., "I don't know how he does it, and I'm not going to learn...But I'm a believer because I have water."

J.F. is all logical fallacy-y-ish in that...post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is basically correlation does not necessarily  mean causation. One does not lead to two. I was sick and I had dirty nasty ginseng in tea and two weeks later I got better (would'v gotten better anyways...), I did the coffee douche thing and now I'm healthy'er or I walked around where obviously you have a vineyard and good soil, good yearly rainfall and it is on the planet earth so *magically* this twig is going to find the water that is already there bla bla bla...

Dude (above) has water wells in the hundreds and the article says that (blank blank) has found "some of them." Wow, I thought I was vague when writing. Some wells, OK then. There is another quote in the article (I'm too lazy to look for it) and it basically says that this water-witch-CEO-man-guy is better at finding water wells than modern science. OK (/), but...

(OK, I'm running outta calories now...) So anyways....

Are Sono-Co's elite drinking the kool aid made with water from Stevie Nick's well (I'm really really reaching on that one.), or am I the one that is deceived (I would admit that). To attempt to hit water by drilling costs tens of 1,000's if not 100's of  dollars with of without science. Inside an earth with water tables-n-such it is said that hitting a "water pocket" is not uncommon. In the world of woo it is also NOT uncommon to count the hits and not count the misses (shit, did I say that correctly. .fuckity). That way the unreliable statistics that you do keep in your head will be totally wrong, guaranteed.

Anecdotal evidence is not necessarily true. Humans err. The five senses are easily deceived. If you don't know statistics and probability, hydrology and geology concepts, then of course you could be taken by the divine water rod, mmm, phallic thing...gross.

* Wiki Dowsing

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* Skeptics dictionary from 16th cen miner's...(1) "...should not make us of an enchanted twig, because if he is prudent and skilled in the natural signs, he understands that a forked stick is of no use to him, for ... there are natural indications of the veins which he can see for himself without the help of twigs. "(Quoted in Zusne and Jones 1989: 106)

* Skeptics Dictionary

* SF Gate

* I started this at 10-ish. Fuckity.