Paul I'd love to see that 😂. What's the video??

Paul cheers, I'll give that a read, I mean I have to be honest I tend to be on Randi's side, but I'd like to read his side of the story.

Paul, homeopathy pills are just sugar pills. Homeopathy was devised by a German doctor in the late eighteenth century, before evidence-based medicine existed, at a time when blood-letting, purging, and other ineffective and dangerous treatments were routinely prescribed (treatments often conjured out of thin air by arbitrary authority figures with no qualifications…you know, the kind that all conspiracy theorists admire). Samuel Hahnemann, the creator of homeopathy, was just such a figure. He believed (based on no evidence - again, just conjuring the idea out of thin air) that the more a substance is diluted in water, the more powerful it becomes at treating the symptoms it would otherwise induce. He eventually decided that simple dilutions were not enough, so he created a specific process. This process, which homeopaths call ‘succussion’, consists of diluting a substance in water, and with each dilution, the glass vessel containing the remedy is shaken by ten firm strikes against ‘a hard but elastic object’. For this purpose, Hahnemann (note, there is no Dr. before his name) had a saddle maker construct a bespoke wooden striking board, covered in leather and stuffed with horsehair. These ten strikes are still carried out in homeopathy pill factories today, although they are carried out by robots. Most rational people, knowing that this is what homeopathy consists of, will already realise that it’s nonsense. Homeopaths have a specific way of figuring out which remedies work for which ailments as well. A group of volunteers (anywhere from one to a couple dozen, not significant, scientifically speaking) come together and take six doses of a particular remedy, at a range of dilutions, over the course of two days, all while keeping a diary of the mental, physical, and emotional sensations felt…including dreams. At the end, the diaries are gathered together, and a ‘master prover’ collates the information from the diaries, creating a long list of symptoms and dreams from the small number of people. These symptoms and dreams then become the ‘symptom picture’ for that remedy. They are written in a big book, and revered forever by all homeopaths. Obviously, the problem with this (since you can’t see it already), is that you can’t be sure if the symptoms are caused by some other substance the people are taking, or if they’re the result of something entirely unrelated. Again, this is why we need double-blind, placebo based studies if we are to determine accurate cause and effect…but homeopaths just ignore logical scientific, evidence-based medicine and trials. Despite, this, they go out of their way to make their fake medicine sound as sciencey as possible. Hahnemann even professed (actually, he recommended) complete ignorance of the physiological processes going on inside the body. He thought that homeopathy should be the opposite of modern alternative therapist's claims that ‘medicine only treats the symptoms, we treat the underlying cause’. He thought that homeopathy should be used to treat only the symptoms. The fact of the matter is that homeopaths rely solely on exotic theories while ignoring the huge amount of negative empirical evidence on the efficacy of homeopathy. Homeopathic remedies are diluted. The typical homeopathic remedy is diluted at 30C, which means the original substance has been diluted by one drop in a hundred, thirty times over. Homeopaths like to say that this means 30C is less than one part per million of the original substance, but that’s a major understatement. A 30C preparation is a dilution of 100 to the power of 30, or 10 to the power of 60, or ONE FOLLOWED BY SIXTY ZEROES, or one part per million million million million million million million million million million, or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. THAT’S HOW MUCH THE AVERAGE SINGLE HOMEOPATHY DOSE IS DILUTED. To put that in perspective, there are only around 100, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. To put it in the words of Dr. Ben Goldacre, ‘Imagine a sphere of water with a diameter of 150 million kilometres (the distance from the earth to the sun). It takes light eight minutes to travel that distance. Picture a sphere of water that size, with one molecule of a substance in it: that’s a 30C dilution. At a homeopathic dilution of 200C (you can buy much higher dilutions from any homeopathic supplier) the treating substance is diluted more than the total number of atoms in the universe, and by an enormously huge margin. To look at it another way, the universe contains about 3x10^80 cubic metres of storage space…if it was filled with water, and one molecule of active ingredient, this would make for a rather paltry 55C dilution.’ With all due respect, homeopathy is complete nonsense. If you feel that it has helped you, you are simply susceptible to the placebo effect.

Paul sorry bro, it’s not called closed minded. It’s called being skeptical..... homeopathy is horse crap. Period.

Spoken like a true Indoctrinated Globehead

I’ve sent the same. I know a guy who has, “seen it work three times!” When I point out that it failed us 3 times (we were trying to find water on our property ) it just goes over his head.

no recently it was found that human have too a very weak sense of magnetoreception

Wow - I've been looking for that video for AGES -THANK YOU!!! [edit: 15 years later!]

idiot they are not charlatans it was recently proved that human magnetoreception exist

+Matvey Ostanin clearly you didn't watch the video lmao, moron.

+Matvey Ostanin even if it exists, obviously this guy didn't have it. Therefore he is a charlatan.

@@matveyostanin2846 you are the idiot here hahahha

There must be a large mineral deposit under the stage duh

I know this is a 6 year old comment, but if you watch closely you can clearly see that he tenses up to induce the rod to move the way he wants. It's absolutely not reacting to anything.

​@frMidinette-bu2xq

You can go to geologist forum many of them admitted that sometime dowsers did better than them so mineral companies hire some of them.

+Daniel Åkesson No. String is no good. The wooden branch needs the holistic quantum energy passed DIRECTLY from your hands' chakra, and astral guidance! With the proper water memory in tune with the Universe and the Gaia spiritual paradigm shifting, this energy will be amplified and transmitted back to your hands, and the stick will point at the water source! Thusly, a string will not work. Don't you know ANYTHING about string theory? Buy Deepack Chackra's "String Theory for Dummies". It explains it all there. But as you appear to be enthusiastic about divine dowsing (or is it Dowsy Divination? I forget), I suggest you try it with Apple wood. This works best. But! Use only a branch from an apple tree grown in the Northern Hemisphere. Apple wood from the Souther hemisphere (such as Granny Smith apple trees in South Africa) will mysteriously point UPWARDS! Very disconcerting, unless you are looking for thunderclouds! And don't ask me about apple trees grown on the equator. This is called a holistic quantum singularity and your dowsing becomes ineffective. This is why there is no water in Quito Ecuador. Good luck at finding that water!

+Elgin Quebec TV Why search for water when one can simply take the piss! ;)

+Elgin Quebec TV Poe's law is hard at work in this post.

Richard Desjardin Yea, the overlofite contrafilication is polsaticoius over treffidissations. ;)

wateriestfire There´s not such thing as "bad publicity"

I would say he was thinking more "hmm a million bux? might as well give it a go right?" (I know it's a million dollar prize now, but at the time of that recording it might of been the lower amount before it was $1M, but either way). Plus he works for mining companies it seems.. he would love money lol. But I feel a bit sorry for the downser people sometimes because they often actually think it's real.. they don't realise that it's subconscious, so they get called a fraud but they don't feel like a fraud.. Edit: I'm muting this thread now so no more replies from me

Sometimes I think these guys truly BELIEVE they have psychic powers, why else would they dare let someone like Randi test their ability, when he's got a record of ruining these fakes already? This guy probably placebo himself into thinking he had psychic powers. His mind probably subconsciously moves his arm for him, and he thinks the wand is moving on its own.

Spot on. From what I've seen, it appears that pretty much 100% of dowsers are utterly convinced of their ability. I think there are some delusional mediums as well - possibly people who hear voices due to mental illness, but for whatever reason never received medical help, and so continued to the point where they actually believe that the dead are speaking to them.

No he just thought he'd take a shot at winning the money. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain. If he happens get lucky at his first attempt not only will he take the money randi was offering but also use the publicity to make more money out in the mining fields.