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Please read the GQ article I linked above if you haven't (https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks https://www.gq.com/story/cia-

Please read the GQ article I linked above if you haven't (https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro...). I understand if you're still skeptical after reading it, but it'd be helpful if we could be working off of the same information so that we won't need to use any contrived example scenarios. But I definitely acknowledge the DC cases are the ones that are most likely to be psychogenic. I just found it interesting that different dogs were allegedly affected both there and overseas.

boomboomsubban 5y ago
>I just found it interesting that different dogs were allegedly affected both there and overseas. Affected in completely different ways, with no symptoms in common. That's terrible evidence, yet it seems to be the primary reason you went from skeptical to convinced.
- meowface 5y ago
  It isn't, at all. It's just one of many little details. I wrote more in some other comments in this thread. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190430 And, again, I'm more skeptical of the DC cases than the overseas one, and I think it's likely that a decent percentage of the cases are psychogenic. Here are the dog references, for anyone else curious: (Alleged Virginia attack) >Then, shortly after Thanksgiving 2019, according to three sources familiar with the incident, a White House staffer was hit while walking her dog in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. According to a government source familiar with the incident, the staffer passed a parked van. A man got out and walked past her. Her dog started seizing up. Then she felt it too: a high-pitched ringing in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her face. (Alleged China attack) >Meanwhile, the roster of victims was growing ever longer. In June 2018, the U.S. State Department evacuated nearly a dozen people from Guangzhou, China, where American diplomats and trade representatives reported feeling symptoms eerily similar to those their colleagues had experienced in Cuba. One victim, Catherine Werner, said that her symptoms began in late 2017, just as Polymeropoulos’s had: a splitting headache, nausea, loss of balance. When her mother went to Guangzhou to help her, she, too, fell ill. Even Werner’s dogs were affected, her mother told NBC News. They began vomiting blood and avoiding the room where Werner and her mother heard the sounds and felt the symptoms start. These two scenarios definitely did not adjust my confidence about any of this. The reported symptoms are indeed different. I just think it's interesting. It absolutely could be a red herring.

boomboomsubban 5y ago

>I just found it interesting that different dogs were allegedly affected both there and overseas. Affected in completely different ways, with no symptoms in common. That's terrible evidence, yet it seems to be the primary reason you went from skeptical to convinced.

meowface 5y ago
It isn't, at all. It's just one of many little details. I wrote more in some other comments in this thread. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190430 And, again, I'm more skeptical of the DC cases than the overseas one, and I think it's likely that a decent percentage of the cases are psychogenic. Here are the dog references, for anyone else curious: (Alleged Virginia attack) >Then, shortly after Thanksgiving 2019, according to three sources familiar with the incident, a White House staffer was hit while walking her dog in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. According to a government source familiar with the incident, the staffer passed a parked van. A man got out and walked past her. Her dog started seizing up. Then she felt it too: a high-pitched ringing in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her face. (Alleged China attack) >Meanwhile, the roster of victims was growing ever longer. In June 2018, the U.S. State Department evacuated nearly a dozen people from Guangzhou, China, where American diplomats and trade representatives reported feeling symptoms eerily similar to those their colleagues had experienced in Cuba. One victim, Catherine Werner, said that her symptoms began in late 2017, just as Polymeropoulos’s had: a splitting headache, nausea, loss of balance. When her mother went to Guangzhou to help her, she, too, fell ill. Even Werner’s dogs were affected, her mother told NBC News. They began vomiting blood and avoiding the room where Werner and her mother heard the sounds and felt the symptoms start. These two scenarios definitely did not adjust my confidence about any of this. The reported symptoms are indeed different. I just think it's interesting. It absolutely could be a red herring.