Dowsing

Claim: Dowsing allows practitioners to detect underground water, minerals, or other hidden materials using hand-held tools such as rods or pendulums.

COMMERCIAL QUACKERY Worldwide#dowsing#divination#water-witching
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Bullshit score
75.9/ 100

Elevated BS signals

#32 · Commercial quackery

7-day change —How is this calculated?
Model confidence71%
Checks2
Search interest2 / 7d

Why this score?

  1. 01The effect drops to random noise when the subject does not know the method was applied or receives a sham.[Q3]

    Blinding test · How the model answered: 97.0% · Bullshit weight: 1.00

  2. 02After removing its specific concepts and rituals, the system loses all content and reduces to pure placebo or random guessing.[Q6]

    Ockham's razor · How the model answered: 92.5% · Bullshit weight: 0.95

  3. 03Unmeasurable fields, energies or substance memory that show no effect in controlled instrumental measurements.[Q2]

    Causal carrier · How the model answered: 73.7% · Bullshit weight: 1.00

Score history

Oct 30, 2026
0255075100 75.9 Oct 30, 2026

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