{"id":10811,"date":"2013-03-15T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:35:24","slug":"is-scaremongering-dangerous-to-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10811","title":{"rendered":"Is Scaremongering Dangerous to Your Health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/company-overview/">https://rgprincipal.com/company-overview/</a> A researcher looked into claims of health effects from exposure to a source of energy that has become controversial in recent years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/drain-cleaning/"></a> Then in about 2009 things started ramping up and these people discovered if you started saying it was a health problem, a lot more people would sit up and pay attention. It&#8217;s essentially a sociological phenomenon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-menu/">Buy Alprazolam No Prescription</a> Here&#8217;s the opening to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2013\/mar\/15\/windfarm-sickness-spread-word-australia\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a><\/em> story containing the aforementioned quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/cameroon-investment/"></a> Sickness being attributed to wind turbines is more likely to have been caused \u00a0by people getting alarmed at the health warnings circulated by activists, an Australian study has found.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/narrative-therapy/">https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/narrative-therapy/</a> Complaints of illness were far more prevalent in communities targeted by anti-windfarm groups, said the report&#8217;s author, Simon Chapman, professor of public health at Sydney University. His report concludes that illnesses being blamed on windfarms\u00a0are more than likely caused by the psychological effect of suggestions that the turbines make people ill, rather than by the turbines themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/atms/">https://worklivelaos.com/atms/</a> Well, well, what are we to make of this? Before you respond, let&#8217;s look at a different example. <!--more-->Last year, Earthworks, a Washington D.C.-based environmental advocacy group surveyed more than 100 people living near gas drilling infrastructure in Pennsylvania. The gas has been tapped via the controversial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydraulic_fracturing\" target=\"_blank\">hydraulic fracturing<\/a> method. An Earthworks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthworksaction.org\/issues\/detail\/public_health_and_gas_development#.UUNqW44-R7G\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on the responses of residents, coupled with air and water samples taken by the environmental group, concluded that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/bookyourflight/">https://blackhillsballoons.com/bookyourflight/</a> many residents have developed health symptoms that they did not have before\u2014indicating the strong possibility that they are occurring because of gas development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/generations-carpet-cleaning/">https://dinoeliadis.com/generations-carpet-cleaning/</a> suggests that widespread contamination of air and water by natural gas drillers in Pennsylvania has triggered an array of health problems, including sinus, respiratory and mood problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/</a> These and other adverse health effects have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/29\/140872251\/the-trouble-with-health-problems-near-gas-fracking\" target=\"_blank\">chronicled<\/a> in communities around the country where gas development has occurred. Now I&#8217;m not going to argue that fracking is not without legitimate environmental and public health concerns. But have those concerns been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaslandthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">hyped and exploited<\/a> to advance an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=173529825\" target=\"_blank\">agenda<\/a>? (Still, the convictions of some in the anti-fracking movement are intensely felt; see this <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/28\/gasland-filmmaker-takes-on-cuomo-and-dot-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">exchange<\/a> between Josh Fox and Andrew Revkin, for example.)\u00a0What am I getting at?<\/p>\n<p> 
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