He trains cops in "witching" to help find corpses. Experts are alarmed.

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.@rebersole spent a week at "the Harvard of Hellish Violence," a forensics academy in Tennessee where students are taught how to locate dead bodies. On the syllabus is a technique known as “witching.” It’s as bizarre as it sounds:

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He trains cops in “witching” to help find corpses. Experts are alarmed.
Arpad Vass might compare himself to Galileo, but others say he is spreading pseudoscience.
9:30 AM · Mar 21, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/03/national-forensic-academy-police-training-dowsing-witching-arpad-vass/

There’s a body buried here—somewhere.

Five crime-scene investigators wearing white Tyvek suits and purple latex gloves pace through a Tennessee woodland in a slow wave, searching for areas of sunken ground and other clues that might indicate a gravesite. The chill morning air is scented with loam, leaves, and pine needles—and a hint of human decay.

The agents mark three suspicious depressions in the dirt with red flags and discuss their options for investigating further. One student asks about dowsing rods.

“You want to use some?” replies Arpad Vass, an instructor at the National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where law enforcement officers come to learn how to use science to solve crimes—at least in theory. “I use them on everything.”

There are no official dowsing rods at hand, but that doesn’t matter. “You can use the flags,” Vass offers. “Bend them like you would coat hangers.”

Fred Ponce, a private detective from Miami, with a dark mustache and beard, gets right to work. He tears the red plastic rectangles off two stakes and spaces his hands to measure about 12 inches of straight steel, then bends the remaining metal into handles. Holding the stakes like six shooters, he walks over one of the suspected gravesites. The stakes cross. He does it again. They cross. And again. They cross.

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1. The anti science nonsense needs to stop

My god, at a school they are teaching dowsing to find dead bodies. Insanity.