[meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

[Steve Witt]

OH MY GOD!! We need a meteorite fall somewhere, NOW!!


Steve Witt
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--- On Sun, 10/17/10, Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Cc: "Michael Fowler" <mqfowler at mac.com>
> Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 8:03 PM
> Phil,
> 
> Am I missing something here?  You say the devices work
> at detecting bombs in Iraq.  I suppose that means that
> no more bombs are getting by Iraqi checkpoints.....
> 
> I wonder do we live in the same world?
> 
> Mike Fowler
> 
> PS  It's not so much a matter of doubting the dowsers,
> as being amazed at the arguments they put forth
> 
> 
> > Hi Mike, 
> > I think the point of the article is relevant to what's
> being discussed 
> > here. People that know for scientific reasons that
> dowsing doesn't work, 
> > can't dowse because it won't work for them. Dowsing
> only works for the 
> > ignorant like myself and dumb construction workers and
> plumbers. The Iraqis 
> > believe in these devices and they work for them. And
> we're talking about 
> > life or death here, surely the devices work, they're
> staking their life on 
> > them. The experts make the exact same arguments in the
> article that I've 
> > heard hear. Scientific test show the devices give no
> better than random 
> > results, etc. etc. Everybody keeps telling them they
> don't work, when 
> > obviously the Iraqis know that they do work, otherwise
> they'd be getting 
> > blown up. Unless the Iraqis are so dumb, they're
> getting blown up, yet still 
> > insist on using the dowsers. If that was the case,
> surely the article would 
> > have reported it. This is the NY Times after all. I
> like at the end of the 
> > article where the naysayer can't get the dowser to
> work, but it works 
> > perfectly for the believer. It's like that Monty
> Python episode where 
> > everybody has to believe in the apartment building or
> it falls down. A 
> > non-believer moves in and the building starts
> collapse, until the believers 
> > convert him and the building goes back up. Every time
> he has doubts, the 
> > building starts to fall down, then he recants and the
> building goes back up. 
> > That's some funny stuff! 
> > 
> > And even though these guys are putting their lives on
> the line every day 
> > with their dowsers, they of course can't pass the
> fraudulent Randi's 
> > impossible requirements and cash in on his stupid
> million dollar con. 
> > 
> > Click on the link for pictures of the overpriced,
> phony dowsing devices 
> > that can't possibly work, yet still do 
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html
> 
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