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, […]
Tag: human exceptionalism
Ideologies that devalue human life – with historian Richard Weikart
You can go away screaming I suck! at an uncaring universe if you like or else you can look at evidence-based alternative views.
Breaking: Common sense statements about human vs animal intelligence
In a respectable venue. That’s so rare now. Noticing actual differences is radical in an age when politically correct nonsense is a form of virtue.
Wesley J. Smith: Human exceptionalism is as close to a self-evident truth as one can find
Increasingly, the “scientific” view of many questions involves looking reality in the face and spitting at it. Why is that?