plants want to be rigid and upright

Categories: Pseudo-explanations

An example of anthropomorphism in science journalism:

"Plants, in general, don't want to be degraded, they want to stay rigid and upright so fractionating is difficult."

Andy West

Andy West (chief chemist at Bio-Sep) was quoted in Vanessa Zainzinger (2023) Transforming sawdust with ultrasound, Chemistry World.

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Many examples of anthropomorphism are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.