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Dave W.
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The new head of Australia's national science agency wants to put money into finding technologies to help farmers dowse for water. His PhD is in physics, and he's spent the last bunch of years as a venture capitalist, so I guess we can't expect him to understand geology or hydrology.
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Originally posted by Dave W.

The new head of Australia's national science agency wants to put money into finding technologies to help farmers dowse for water. His PhD is in physics, and he's spent the last bunch of years as a venture capitalist, so I guess we can't expect him to understand geology or hydrology.
Kylie Sturgess did a thing on this over at Doubtful News. She concludes:

I think one of the questions I would now ask is: how did the new Head of the largest scientific and industry research body in this country reach these views without at least showing a modicum of skepticism? Did the CSIRO know he was keen to say these things?

I guess we can chalk it up to yet another example of “you never know what people are going to believe in without sufficient evidence”.


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