Kernels of Truth: The Incomplete Works of A.W. Shucks

Dissertation Highlights

What Mother Never Told You About

The Wild Side of Science

"[He] frequently takes an intrinsically interesting subject and systematically distorts the evidence. If there are both a mundane scientific explanation and one requiring the most extravagant paranormal or psychic explanation, you can be sure which will be highlighted".

—Carl Sagan writing in Parade Magazine

My doctoral dissertation was based on the only book available in the Cornatzer University library, The Secret Life of Plants¹. Quotations are from that book unless otherwise noted.

I am pleased to share with you some of the highlights of my research — which have made the headlines (pay no attention to the woman in the photo).

I am sure you are aware of the rumors that my degree was received "on-line" via the Psychic Hotline. I wish to set the record straight. I earned it the "old-fashioned" way — by snail mail. If you question my academic credentials (Ph.D. in Electroculture and Plant Psychology, H.Mo.²), I can only say that you may rest assured that at least some of the photographs are "doctored". I believe that they will speak for themselves as to the validity of my research.

¹ by Peter Tompkins, with Christopher Bird, First Edition 1974
² H.Mo. = Honorary, Mail-order

Dissertation Contents

Introduction

Plant Psychology

The Harmonic Life of Plants

Electroculture

Other Experiments (which went awry)

Afterword

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