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Neuropsychological impairments everybody has

• scandox 8y ago
  > They invariably linked these symptoms to acoustic stimuli of varying intensity and duration, experienced whilst in Havana. The story, which has precipitated an ongoing diplomatic standoff between the US and Cuba, has been branded by the media as evidence of a malign ‘sonic attack'. > The reports of these symptoms are largely anecdotal, but apparently stronger objective data have now emerged, in a high-profile paper with a supporting editorial, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. > This article has attracted a lot of attention, but remarkably little scrutiny. A closer reading of the paper shows that the neuropsychological evidence presented in the Supplementary Material (eTable 2) is almost unbelievably flimsy.