{"id":10374,"date":"2013-02-08T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2013-02-08T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:07:55","slug":"the-logical-extension-of-wind-turbine-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10374","title":{"rendered":"The Logical Extension of Wind Turbine Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://andiroberts.com/complexity-leadership/ If you google Wind Turbine Syndrome<\/a>, the first link will take you to a book by Nina Pierpont, an author with all sorts of impressive-looking medical credentials, who wastes no time in revealing “wind energy’s dirty little secret”:<\/p>\n

https://rgprincipal.com/noticias-peru/ Many people living within 2 km (1.25 miles) of these spinning giants get sick. So sick that they often abandon (as in, lock the door and leave) their homes. Nobody wants to buy their acoustically toxic homes. The \u201clucky ones\u201d get quietly bought out by the wind developers\u2014who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that Wind Turbine Syndrome exists. (And yet the wind developers thoughtfully include a confidentiality clause in the sales agreement, forbidding their victim from discussing the matter further.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this really true? Last year, the UK’s\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em> claimed<\/a> that thousands of people living near wind turbines have come down with an array of maladies (because of the whirring blades), from tinnitus and insomnia to depression and high blood pressure. The Daily Mail<\/em> based its report on people it interviewed and this 2011 study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seems like we’re hearing more about this every week, connected perhaps<\/a> to a growing anti-wind movement. But one researcher who has investigated “Wind Turbine Syndrome”\u00a0says<\/a> it is<\/p>\n

https://theroyalstagproperties.com/about/ a classic \u201ccommunicated\u201d disease: it spreads by being talked about, and is therefore a strong candidate for being defined as a\u00a0psychogenic<\/a>\u00a0condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, as I wrote here<\/a>, it is a<\/p>\n

phenomenon akin to\u00a0mass hysteria<\/a>\u2014an outbreak of apparent health problems that has a psychological rather than physical basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stephen Colbert had some fun with this a few months ago:<\/p>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/facilitationphysicalenvironment/ Now, Wind Turbine Syndrome might just seem like a collection of unrelated health complaints to the untrained eye. (By the way, untrained eye? Also a symptom of Wind Turbine Syndrome.) For the reason it seems that way is because it probably is. Several studies have concluded that there is no evidence of health effects from wind turbines. But just because it’s made up doesn’t mean it’s not contagious. Wind Turbine Syndrome is what we can call a communicated disease. It’s spread via the NOCEBO effect, by being talked about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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