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I agree with your sentiment (that headlines containing question marks are generally conjecture and not news), but in this case the answer pretty clearly is "yes
by humbledrone 15y ago
I agree with your sentiment (that headlines containing question marks are generally conjecture and not news), but in this case the answer pretty clearly is "yes, trees do communicate." To be sure, it's not a great headline, but it was chosen by the original author so maybe you should post a comment on his blog if you're concerned.
- raldi 15y agoSorry, I don't see any examples in the article where trees communicate, just that they tap into each other's resources. Was there more to it than that? If not, that's a pretty misleading headline. When I water a plant, it's not communicating with the garden hose.
- Meai 15y agoThat depends on how you define 'communicating'. It's all essentially about definitions and opinions. This is probably a tad too cynical, but to me it seems most every discussion boils down to these two things. We'd really need a better framework for discussing these things, I think we'd waste a lot less time arguing over semantics. A beautiful example is the discussion whether God exists or not. If you could just force both participants to define what God is, then the discussion over his existence would be over in seconds. (with the conclusion that there is no way of knowing, so let's stop talking about it)
- puredemo 15y agoThat's usually how it goes if you aren't talking to someone who is being intellectually dishonest. Over in a few minutes.