Dowsing
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Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate many types of objects and materials without the use of technical equipment or a scientific apparatus. It may be applied to seek ground wa
A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions
Dowsing for metal ore, from 1556 "De re metallica libri XII" book
Use of a divining Rod observed in Great Britain in the late 18th century
Skeptic James Randi at a lecture at Rockefeller University, on October 10, 2008, holding a US$800 device advertised as a dowsing instrument
ADE 651
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The ADE 651 is a fraudulent bomb detector produced by the British company Advanced Tactical Security & Communications Ltd. It was claimed to detect many substances, such as drugs or explosives, from l
Dowsing
…twenty-first centuries, a number of dowsing-like devices were marketed for modern police and military use, primarily as explosive detectors, such as the ADE 651, Sniffex, and the GT200. In consequence of these frauds, in 1999 the United States National Institute of Justice issued advice against buying equipment…
An ADE 651 device in 2016
An Iraqi federal policeman in 2008 using an ADE 651
Photo of ADE 100 taken at QEDcon 2016
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani, who defended the use of the ADE 651.