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Feedback: What would quantum agriculture be?

11 December 2013

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Quantum agriculture?

INCREDULITY followed Ruby Hills’s alert on a course in New South Wales. The organisers that “Dr Patrick MacManaway… will be conducting a Quantum Leap Level 1 workshop at Dubbo.”

Regular readers will know that Feedback considers occurrence of the word “quantum” outside actual physics an indicator of fruitloopery: we were not disappointed. The twist is new: “MacManaway has produced some of the first scientific evidence of the effects of Subtle Energy in agriculture with yield increases…

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