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🌿 “The Secret Life of Plants” – What Was Right, and What Went Too Far
The book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (1973) popularised the idea that plants feel, communicate, and even “read minds.” Many experiments from the book, such as those by Cleve Backster with a polygraph, did not pass scientific verification. To remind you, Backster connected polygraph electrodes to the leaf of a Dracaena plant. When he thought about…