From: utzoo!watmath!cbostrum
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Defying Explanation
Article-I.D.: watmath.4631
Posted: Thu Feb 24 09:56:27 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 09:06:02 1983

Someone posted an article that seemed to defend "dowsing" by asking
"how many other things do you know that defied rational explanation
for some time?" This seems to presuppose that there is some actual
phenomenom realted to dowsing that currently lacks a rational explantion.
I would contest that? Has dowsing *ever* been demonstrated under any sort
of rigourous controlled conditions, or is it in the same camp with all
the other crystal ball stuff? I think the latter, actually.