Do Plants Feel?
More than you might think - but not as much as some people claim
When I was a little kid I stumbled across a book that I read with wide-eyed credulity. It claimed that if you get a monitor that is sensitive enough, and you hook it up to a plant, that you can record the plant's reaction to such diverse activities as being watered, or boiling a pot of shrimp to death in the next room.
This is an excellent example of the worst kind of bad science: it jumbles up truth with untruth, and you end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The truth lies somewhere in the middle ground, but mixing it up with bunk only discredits everything.
