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So in this thread we have mrtksn calling this lousy journalism, and madeuptemcappt saying it’s a well-researched and cited article. So which is it?

• scottlocklin 8y ago
  It's a series of fairly unlikely assertions backed with plausible looking narrative and interviews. Pretty typical for the NYT these days, and very sad. IEEE Spectrum did a series of articles on this; I thought the mostly likely explanation was ultrasound jammers and intermodulation distortion. Aka defective gear; which is why the same thing seems to have happened in China as well as Cuba.
  • tim333 8y ago
    There's a link to one of the IEEE articles here https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/how-we-reverse-engineered-the-cuban-sonic-weapon-attack https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/how-we-reve... with a recording of sounds recorded at the embassy and their attempts to reproduce it. To me the microwave theory seems a better fit.
    • scottlocklin 8y ago
      This is the one I had in mind: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/finally-a-likely-explanation-for-the-sonic-weapon-used-at-the-us-embassy-in-cuba https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/finally-a-l...