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 ...

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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 ...

Thames Water and Severn Trent Water are still use dowsing rods to detect leaks despite scientific studies showing that the method is ineffective. A 2017 investigation found that 10 out of 12 water ...

Users: 10 regional water and sewer utilities in Great Britain What were they thinking? When British scientist Sally LePage’s parents told her that a technician from the local water company used ...

Biologist Sally Le Page couldn't believe it when she heard a folk magic practice was being used to look for water mains in 2017. But 10 out of 12... Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday Most of the major water ...

Dowsing rods can & do work in a very specific instance - it's an old plumber trick to use metal coat hangers, cut & bent into 90 degree shapes and held slightly between fingers to find iron pipes ...