The last few days while commuting to work I have seen Kauai County road workers using dowsing rods on the side of Kuhio Highway apparently looking for a water main.
For those who don't know, dowsing is a "method" developed in the 16th century whereby a dowser uses either two L-shape rods or a Y-shaped branch to locate water in the ground. Modern-day dowsers claim that the rods are attracted to water and therefore can accurately point out the location of water in the ground. However, numerous experiments show that dowsing works no better than chance -- meaning dowsing is bunk.
A sad side-note is that glorified dowsing rods called the ADE 651 were hocked to Iraqi police for $60,000 a pop to locate explosives in cars. Of course, they didn't work and many people have died from car bombs that went undiscovered at security checkpoints no thanks to the ADE 651. The US Government has since issued a formal warning to the millitary from buying these "bogus explosive detection" dowsing rods.
Clearly, searching for a water main on the side of a highway is not the same as letting car bombs get by a checkpoint but whoever used our tax dollars to buy dowsing "equipment" for Kauai County's road crew deserves to called out for their stupidity or at least their ignorance. DOWSING DOESN'T WORK! Please give the road workers proper tools to get their jobs done properly. Every hour they waste hunting for a water main is tax dollars wasted. I just hope that these dowsing rods didn't cost the County $60,000 each.
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