James Randi Speaks: Dowsing, the Ideomotor Effect
Channel: JamesRandiFoundation
Date: 2009-02-18

James Randi Speaks Video 7 

Recorded: 2/18/2009 at the James Randi Educational Foundation

Lighting, Camera and Editing by: Richard Montalvo (rmontalvo23@gmail.com)


The James Randi Educational Foundation gets many applicants for it's Million Dollar Challenge who claim to be able to dowse. Many  say that they can detect things from Water, Gold, Money and the like. What many of them fail to do is to research the ideomotor effect.
We received an application for the Challenge which is a perfect example of how people sometimes just can't understand that the rods are only responding to their movements.

Information on Ideomotor Effect
http://skepdic.com/ideomotor.html

More video of Randi and Dowsing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsCnX-TKIY

Dowsing in the News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8BxmXHRaBI

Dowsing with Derren Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOqyMykIso