Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D. student and science ...

10 out of 12 big British water firms have admitted to still using "divining rods" to look for water. It's a medieval pseudoscience, with no reputable evidence that it works. When the parents of Sally ...

Divining rods are still being used by water companies to locate underground pipes in the UK despite there being no scientific evidence that this archaic method works, an Oxford University scientist ...

Wouldn't it theoretically work worse than chance? At least by chance, you have you wouldn't theoretically have any biases leading you towards something. Dowsing rods require the user's subconscious ...

A British biologist has discovered that 10 out of 12 of the biggest water companies in the United Kingdom still use divining rods to locate water underground. Sally Le Page's investigation was ...

Dowsers will tell you the origins of their art are lost in antiquity. Some say there is archaeological evidence that ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Hittites and Sumerians used various forms of dowsing ...

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There are many different ways to hold a divining rod or dowsing rod. Some people prefer to "witch" for water with a pendulum. The practice relies on the idea that the object will suddenly move when a ...

I work for a M.U.A here in the US, when i first started one of the older guys used a bent piece of a steel rod, like the rods they use for the flag markers, to check the location of underground water ...

Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D ...