I don't know about this Farnsworth... I'd like a second opinion. Summon Wernstrom. I'm willing to offer tenure, a big research grant, access to a lab and five graduate students (provisions about their ancestry withheld).

I heard they pre-wrote a book after the movie, too!

Not without some feathers!

This was known since 1947, including treatment. Prestigious French botanist Floris Vian describes such a case in his work where a water lily grown into a lung was almost successfully treated by surrounding the patient with flowers. Unfortunately they ran so much out of funds that even the roof of the building collapsed. So in this case they should have surrounded him with lots of vegetables.