Doug Kanter wrote:

> Peter, I am not kidding. Various neighbors looked at it and said "WTF???" If
> it happens again, I've got a digital camera now, and I'll post pictures. I'm
> planting the exact same seed variety (Burpee Kentucky Blue Pole Beans).
> We'll see.


If it doesn't happen again, will you conclude that the first beans sent
out feelers in one direction due to accidents of wind and sun direction,
or will you conclude that the first pack of seeds were sentient while
the others weren't, or might it be that all the seeds were sentient, but
the second set of beans were just stupid? Make sure you take digital
pictures of ALL bean plants, not just the ones making the leap towards
the higher pole.


Someone else can supply the right word for this, but people who believe
in the paranormal have a way of explaining amazing things by counting
their hits while disregarding their misses. So if a "psychic" can
accurately read an audience member's mind once and fails miserably
another 30 times, the folks who want to believe will say that he really
is psychic and attribute the failures to all sorts of excuses. The
people who don't believe will notice that making good on a guess once
out of 30 times proves only that someone made a good guess once out of
30 times.


--Lia