Clive Baxter claimed to own evidence the ability of plants to think, feel, understand people’s thoughts. While previously serving with the CIA, he gained international recognition as lie detector specialist. 
A photo from open sources Clive Baxter connects to the device indoor flower to record his reaction in response to different forms, effects February 2, 1966 Baxter message unleashed controversy that is still ongoing. Once he connected the wires polygraph to a houseplant. He was shocked that the device recorded an emotional reaction similar to a human reaction. The detector showed a positive reaction when the flower was watered, recorded alarm when Baxter wanted to poke a plant with a match. Even just the thought of a burn caused a furious response to oscilloscope screen. Further experiments showed that plants experienced stress when another plant was threatened or living being. In the middle of the XIX century. German physicist Gustav Fechner argued that plants and animals have a soul. Charles Darwin suggested that plants are capable of feeling. At the beginning of the XX century. Indian scientist Jagadis Chandra Bowes suggested that plants have a kind of nervous system that can be excited and responsiveness. American biologist, famous breeder-gardener Luther Burbank (1849 – 1926) was sure that if you love plants, then with the help of volitional influences you can achieve their full bloom. It was believed that plant growth accelerates music. In 1968, Cleve Baxter’s post was published in “International Journal of Parapsychology,” and then replicated in the best-selling book of Peter Tompkin and Christopher Bird The Secret Life of Plants (1973). American nerds held experiments, but no one was able to repeat the results of Baxter. Since no one doubted his honesty, scientists came to to the conclusion that his logic and methodology are erroneous. Skeptics recalled that the results obtained with the lie detector do not reliable. Others have suggested that plants respond to the amount of carbon monoxide that people exhale. Still scientific research into the Baxter effect is ongoing. In the 70s, the Soviet parapsychologists A.P. Dubrov and V.N. Pushkin reported that they received similar results using an encephalograph instead of a polygraph.
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