If it is indeed a fact that plants can think, identify murderers and feel the ‘pain’ of a fellow plant or shrimp being killed nearby, and pick up the thoughts of someone planning to do them damage from several miles away then they would do this area of science justice by letting us see all possibilities explored and have our obvious questions answered. If these authors wanted to present the work as scientific fact and gain widespread acceptance they really needed to be rigorous in their science and the reporting, address all possibilities and not jump to attractive conclusions so easily. I constantly found myself saying 'yes but what about…'. The writing style is anecdotal and for the mass public consumption, not the scientist, yet it maintains a scientific tone throughout, which may deceive the average reader into believing these are cut and dried facts. However, I found I could not suspend my disbelief in this book for too long. This book amazed and fascinated me I really hope that all that is suggested is true. Most of the experiments mentioned rely on measuring, by a kind of polygraph, changes in electromagnetic activity in the plants caused by human induced stimuli. The book leads us through numerous scientific experiments conducted over the previous 40 years or so in which the reader is asked to suspend disbelief and accept the word of the authors, and the reported evidence and conclusions of the original scientists conducting the experiments, that plants can 'think' and even read our thoughts. It is worth a read to see what all the fuss was about and to perhaps shift one’s perception of plants and our relationship with them. This book, written nearly 30 years ago, was very controversial at the time. Authors: Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird.
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