AntiPolygraph.org Message Board - Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants?

(UTC)

Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register

You can enhance your privacy when browsing and posting to this forum by using the free and open source Tor Browser and posting as a guest (using a fake e-mail address such as nobody@nowhere.com) or registering with a free, anonymous ProtonMail e-mail account. Registered users can exchange private messages with other registered users and receive notifications.

In addition, check out our live chat server.

AntiPolygraph.org Message Board › Polygraph and CVSA Forums › Off-Topic Posts › Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants?

(Moderator: Administrator)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Send Topic

Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants? (Read 4535 times)

techfan New User Offline Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 7^th, 2006	Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants? Sep 7^th, 2006 at 7:24pm	Mark & Quote Quote Print Post
	From what I have read, techniques developed by Cleve Backster, such as ZCT (Zone Comparison Test), are still widely used in polygraphy. This is the same Cleve Backster who also used polygraphs to "prove" bio-communication with plants, in a widely criticised article entitled Primary Perception. While I already had great doubts about the scientific validity of polygraphs, I was astonished to learn this information. I am surprised his psuedo-scientific research (both with polygraphs and psychic plants) aren't prominently featured on this web site. Why isn't this used to further attack the credibility of polygraphs?


	IP Logged

Marty Especially Senior User Offline Posts: 499 Joined: Sep 27^th, 2002	Re: Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants? Reply #1 - Sep 7^th, 2006 at 8:06pm	Mark & Quote Quote Print Post
	techfan wrote on Sep 7^th, 2006 at 7:24pm: From what I have read, techniques developed by Cleve Backster, such as ZCT (Zone Comparison Test), are still widely used in polygraphy. This is the same Cleve Backster who also used polygraphs to "prove" bio-communication with plants, in a widely criticised article entitled Primary Perception. While I already had great doubts about the scientific validity of polygraphs, I was astonished to learn this information. I am surprised his psuedo-scientific research (both with polygraphs and psychic plants) aren't prominently featured on this web site. Why isn't this used to further attack the credibility of polygraphs? That has long been my sig reference. "Leaf my Philodenrons alone." Backster's plant experiments are mentioned, without aspersion, in the front of the Matte's text on polygraphy. I think James Randi's million dollar challenge would be applicable but the testing could raise a ruckus with PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants).

	Leaf my Philodenrons alone.
	IP Logged

1904 Ex Member	Re: Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants? Reply #2 - Jun 21^st, 2007 at 3:32pm	Mark & Quote Quote Print Post
	Cleve also undertook GSR experimentation using semen. Why...!? What was he thinking...? The mind boggles. This has puzzled me for years. I look at him and my mind wanders. I picture him sitting there, in his greenhouse, talking dirty to the plants. " Who's your daddy, daisy" I wonder who he tested first; the plants or the semen? Was the bio-feedback he referred to , the....the...Nope. I cant bring myself to say it. The mind boggles.


	IP Logged

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Send Topic

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Cleve Backster's Psychic Plants?

Name:
E-mail:
Your Verification Code is:	Please type the characters that appear in the image. The characters must be typed in the same order, and they are case-sensitive.
Verification Code:
Preview

Message Icon:

Subject:

Message:
You can resize the textbox by dragging the right or bottom border.

Max 200000 characters. Remaining characters:

Text size: pt

More Smilies

View All Smilies

Collapse/Expand additional features

Attachments More Attachments

Allowed file types: txt doc docx ics psd pdf bmp jpe jpg jpeg gif png swf zip rar tar gz 7z odt ods mp3 mp4 wav avi mov 3gp html maff pgp gpg
Maximum Attachment size: 500000 KB

Attachment 1:

Attachment 2:

Attachment 3:

Attachment 4:

Attachment 5:

Attachment 6:

Attachment 7:

Attachment 8:

Attachment 9:

Attachment 10:

Disable UBBC and Smilies:

Check this if you wish to disable parsing of ubbc tags and smilies.