When dowsers said they could detect underground water with their rods, or wands or magical fairy pendulums we said "no you can't." But most people didn't listen.
In fact, most dowsers are genuinely convinced they really can detect water, or gold, or whatever they want. If only they understood how confirmation bias worked...
But that's a story for another day.
Usually I live and let live. Most of the time dowsers aren't hurting anyone very much... unless you consider taking advantage of a trust hurtful. However, this is outrageous.
A UK company is making millions selling dowsing 'bomb detection wands' to the Iraqi military, who are abandoning proven methods.
Just think about that. People are going to be blown to pieces because a group of ignorant, money grubbing, credulous dowsers in the UK either 1) can't be bothered educating themselves about basic science, or 2) understand that they're selling fraudulent products, and don't care that they will result in violent painful maiming and death.
I'm irate, and you should be too.
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Yes, no matter how unscrupulous an activity, there will always be someone willing to get involved.
ReplyDelete"Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things; but for good people to do bad things, that requires religion". Quite irrelevant to the subject, but I like the quote.