The New Yorker story is still the most thorough and best reported story I have read on this subject: >> Smith rejected this explanation [of mass hysteria]. “To

The New Yorker story is still the most thorough and best reported story I have read on this subject: >> Smith rejected this explanation [of mass hysteria]. “To artificially display all of these symptoms, you’d have to actually go and research, practice, be the most consummate actor ever, and convince one expert after another,” he said. But he acknowledged that more data were needed to convince skeptics that the syndrome was real. He said his team was awaiting “potential tangible evidence” from a new neuroimaging study involving the victims. In addition, experts from the National Institutes of Health were examining the JAMA results. “Let the scientific process play out,” Smith said. It is also suspicious to me that the Cuban government has refused to provide surveillance footage from the alleged scenes of the attacks: >> Investigators, arriving months after the incidents, had to contend with the fact that such attacks would leave no physical evidence at the scene: no shell casings, no burn marks, no chemical residue. There might have been video evidence, however. Agents visiting the two hotels saw surveillance cameras in the lobbies and hallways, which might help determine if anyone was outside the rooms during the incidents. The F.B.I. asked for access to footage from the hotels, and from cameras near the Americans’ residences. According to U.S. officials, the Cubans have yet to provide it. It's kind of pathetic and lazy for an article like this to assume that this is some elaborate Trump-fueled plot against Cuba.