• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    In conclusion, we feel we must speak forcefully: plant neurobiologists have become serial speculationists. The ratio of speculation to data in their oeuvre is astronomically high. If they want to form a sensible hypothesis and then test it with real experiments, that is fine, but the prolific speculating and fantasizing need to stop.

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      8 days ago

      You can’t read?

      If they want to form a sensible hypothesis and then test it with real experiments, that is fine, but the prolific speculating and fantasizing need to stop.

      The speculators haven’t done this. They have asserted, with zero evidence, that plants can think. Meanwhile, the study I linked shows many attempts to observe plants expressing consciousness with no positive results. Support your claims with evidence or shut the fuck up, lives are at stake.