Skeptilab - The Pseudoscience of Dowsing with Andy Richter

Jim Underdown is joined by actor and comedian Andy Richter (Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Three Questions with Andy Richter) for a “deep dive” into the pseudoscience of dowsing.

Supposedly dowsing can find anything and everything, including missing persons, buried pipes, oil deposits, and even archaeological ruins. The most popular form of dowsing is water dowsing (also known as water witching or rhabdomancy), in which a person holds a Y-shaped branch or two L-shaped wire rods and walks around until being pulled or the wire rods cross, which allegedly indicates that there is water below.

Read More from Skeptical Inquirer and the CFIIG Case Files
• https://cfiig.org/dowsing-for-truth/
• https://cfiig.org/lewis-rees/
• https://skepticalinquirer.org/2011/09...
• https://skepticalinquirer.org/1979/10... - By James Randi
• https://skepticalinquirer.org/1999/01...