Why should science need evidence anyway? Why isn’t speculation good enough?
Is spacetime granular on the smallest of scales?
How many “types of human” “coexisted with our ancestors”?
Hoover Institution interview with David Berlinski
Researcher: “Environmental crisis” spurs some scientists to believe plants are conscious
We are invited to consider a simpler perspective on the laws of physics
Why do plant scientists need to tell the world that plants are NOT conscious?
You didn’t think plants were conscious, did you? Did you really think salad is murder? Yet telling us that plants are not conscious is the gist of a recently published major paper in Trends in Plant Science. (open access) Part of the background to the “plants think like people” movement in science, which they oppose, is that we have learned over the years that plants communicate a lot. The other part is refusal to acknowledge that humans are exceptional. Quite simply, the need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants. We can expect many more such conundrums. They will result in further declarations in science journals that Read More ›