Recently, I came across a Mythbusters episode on YouTube which appears to successfully replicate Backster's work - however, (a) they're actually testing for something slightly different (ESP), and (b) the article by Wikipedia which touches on this claims there was more work on that episode - not shown on the YouTube clip, but described here - which led them to conclude that the results couldn't be replicated. Well, the extra tests they tried (yoghurt and eggs) and the removal of people from the room are basically absurd - the original experiment used live shrimp, which had a more highly developed response capacity: substituting yoghurt is missing the point entirely (although it is also possible that some idiots in the USA have distorted the original results - making them both stupid and harmful), and I also question the removal of people from outside the plant's aura - particularly when the experiment has been located in a shipping container for the purpose of electrical isolation! How is the basically electrical phenomenon of thought meant to penetrate that barrier (although that may be due to lack of training in telepathy)?
For other views on this, see:
- a Smithsonian experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGLABm7jJ-Y; and
- a TEDx talk on forms of communication and learning shown by plants, and the possible implications for that in terms of dignity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8YnvMpcrVI (there are other related TEDx talks, but the sound was abysmal).
I'll end this with a few more links on plants, which may suggest the knee jerk reactions of "scientists" are questionable:
- Smithsonian clip on whether plants respond to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o54o71wVa2c; and
- a Mythbusters episode on the same, which showed variable results depending on who was involved (which is one of my key points): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsbM9LxPAk.
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and those of the Clear Light who assist me,
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Tags: bias, Cleve Backster, consciousness, experiment, Lyall Watson, plants, science, sloppy thinking, Stuart Holroyd,
First published: Fryrsdagr, 23rd December, 2016
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's,
Blogger's change of my formatting and other minor matters): Friday, 23rd December, 2016
