Darn. I thought I really had something going with that cute lil sweetpea plant.
dermot wrote: >Hi Marilyn, > >The book you mention, "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Thomkins and >Christopher Bird, was a bestseller over 20 years ago. It made all sorts >of outlandish claims which were based on the "scientific" work of a >"Dr." Cleve Backster. It turns out that Backster was not in fact a >scientist but a polygraph technician. Is that ironic or what? > >Unfortunately the scientific evidence didn't stand up to scrutiny as >nobody else was able to replicate the results. > >Quite a few books were published debunking the original book but they >were not bestsellers.The truth is pretty boring I'm afraid. Just google >"The Secret Life of Plants and debunk" and you'll see what I mean. > >Regards >Dermot > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote: >>Hi Andres, >> >>You raised an interesting point below (on 3rd Oct, sorry for late >>reply)about my assertion that there is currently no reliable >>evidence to suggest that plants feel pain. >><snip> >>"I say wait a while, we'll find they do. Science advances slowly, >>with many stumbles along the road, and many dead ends as well." >>(Andres) >><snip> >> >>I'm not saying the following is true, but someone told me about a >>book on the subject of plant "pain" called "The Secret Life of >>Plants" This book and other articles on plants tell of experiments >>that attached to laboratory plants a technology of the type used in >>lie detectors that is extremely sensitive to the tiniest movement. >>When a person burned the plant or harmed it in other ways it >>recoiled strongly. Later when that person would enter the room the >>plants would react the same way, but not to other people. Also, they >>attached these devices to people's plants in their homes and the >>people wrote down their feelings all day and noted the time. At the >>end of each day they compared the recorded feelings with the plant >>reactions recorded on the technology. They were amazed to see that >>plant movement aligned with certain emotions, even when the people >>were on a long trip. >> >>Google brings up over 87,000 sites on this topic if you want to hear >> >> >>from someone who knows something about this. I only know what I was > > >>told by a friend. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
