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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

It's less important that such arguments be factually accurate than that they are superficially convincing enough to distract the person giving the argument from thoughts and feelings they are unwilling to process.