MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Hello Pacal,
>
> How about reading Secrets of the Great Pyramid
> again thirty years on...
> Who knows, you may come away with a different view
> of it - though I expect it be highly unlikely
>
> You write, 'Tompkins also wrote the throughly
> risible and just plain nutsoid The Secret Life of
> Plants'
>
> Hmmm, isn't that a bit like judging Alistair
> MacLean's classic novel HMS Ulysses by his
> absolutely awful later novel River of Death ?
>
> MJ
It goes to the gullibility of the author and his propensity to pseudoscience. From my files:

"The reliability of Peter Tompkins as a scientific source can be evaluated from some of his other publications (P. Tompkins and C. Bird, The Secret Life of Plants. NY: Harper & Row, 1977) in which Tompkins claims that plants can talk to people."


Bernard