Haider Warraich
As a physician, writer, and clinical researcher, Haider Warraich wears many hats. He writes frequently for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and has also written for the the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Guardian, Vox, Slate, Boston Globe and Stat News. He has more than 120 peer reviewed research papers including mutliple papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.