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— Earth Radiation: The Invisible Risk to Health — fatal. He was sleeping in the same bed as the first victim. Carefully checking his scintillometer readings, Stangle found watercourses inter- secting below the house in question and many others that had been associated with Moulins cancer deaths; but Picard, fearful of reprisals against his own practice by official medicine unwilling to admit the connection between cancer and noxious radiations, did not publish his data. Impressed with Stingle's corroboration of von Pohl's and Picard's work, Dr Dieter Aschoff in the late fall of 1973 published a booklet about it: "Can Official Science Still Deny the Theory that Cancer can be Produced by Stimulation Zones?" In it, he revealed that as far back as 1960 he had been systematically warning his patients to have dowsers check for noxious radiation under areas where they spent extended periods of time. Unknown to Stingle, Dr Armin Bickel, a German-born research engineer and scien- tist who began his career at the German development centre in Peenemunde where he worked on the V-2 rocket, and ended it at NASA's Western Missile Test Range in Lompoc, California, was challenged after his retirement to develop instruments that could be of benefit to geological prospect- ing in the detection of water, oil, and min- erals underground. After two years of experimentation in his laboratory and tests in the field, Bickel came up with a black box, weighing no more than ten pounds, that compares to Stangle's instrument as the latest model Rolls Royce compares to a Model-T Ford. A supersensitive scintillation counter incor- porating a built-in computer with more than 1,800 transistors designed by expert William Cunningham, it is assertedly able to pinpoint with uncanny accuracy the length, width and dip of mineral deposits as well as their approximate quantity at depths as great as 1,000 feet and to detect oil-bear- ing strata down to 10,000 feet. scintillation counter over three zones in the northern part of the town to find that the pen on his strip chart traced out a sharp increase of radiation similar to that pro- duced by water veins. Von Pohl's forty-year-old conclusions appeared justified and, as Stangle tri- umphantly stated: "The principal objection against the existence of pathogenic stimula- tion zones, namely the inability to objectify them, is no longer valid." Stingle was invited to France, to the town of Moulins near where a physician, Dr J. Picard, had made his own nine-year study of the incidence of cancer and recorded the dwelling-places for 282 can- cer victims, Each house in which a cancer death had occurred was located over a water vein or a geological fracture of some kind. In one house, a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in the same bed night after night had succumbed to a sarcoma in the right side of his body. The nine-year-old son in another family, which moved into the dwelling a short time later, also developed a sarcoma in his right side, which proved [Note: The above article is reprinted from Chapter 15 of Christopher Bird's book, The Divining Hand: The 500- Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing, repub- lished in a newly updated edition by Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Whitford Press), Atglen, PA, USA.] Continued in the next issue of NEXUS... APRIL-MAY 1996 84 ¢ NEXUS Continued from page 40