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So they did MRIs, but I read some pretty intelligent commentary from someone that worked with MRIs in a lab setting. Essentially what they said is there's enoug
by jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
So they did MRIs, but I read some pretty intelligent commentary from someone that worked with MRIs in a lab setting. Essentially what they said is there's enough variation in brains and MRI data that if you go looking for differences in an open ended way, you'll find them. That's apparently why the criteria for diagnosing based on MRI are very narrow and specific.
Additionally, everyone keeps insinuating this is Russia, but I have yet to see a single person articulate an answer to "what does this actually accomplish?" that wasn't empty blather. Moreover, to carry out some similar attack in a variety of nations around the world would take an enormous investment in resources, and would carry a grave risk of exposure. Again, to accomplish what exactly?
The proposed mechanisms don't hold water either. Ultrasound doesn't go through masonry walls. Microwaves struggle to as well, but also embassy's are bristling with spectrum monitoring equipment. If someone was blasting buildings with RF they'd know it.
My personal view is something did happen in Havana, and organophosphate exposure seems the most likely to me. They fumigate way over health limits in the rich part of the city, and I could see embassy staff not acclimatized to it having a reaction.
Once the idea of a mystery weapon attacking embassy staff idea was planted in the minds of our diplomatic core, at that point I think it turned into hysteria. Suggestion is powerful and the human mind is definitively irrational.
I'll be glad to change my mind if anyone comes up with evidence that motivates it. Absent that I'm not going to assume an elaborate clandestine attack vs more banal explanations.
- caddemon 5y agoInteresting, I could definitely see it being some sort of weird environmental effect, I'm not convinced it's an attack.
- Goety 5y ago>If someone was blasting buildings with RF they'd know it. I believe in Havana they told us that it was their own equipment as that would make the most sense. But you're right there are a lot of unknowns and wild reporting on it.
- wahern 5y agoDon't forget that the high-pitched sound some of them claimed to hear and directly attributed to their immediate discomfort and subsequent symptoms seems to have been crickets. See https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/10/recorded-sounds-that-plagued-u-s-diplomats-in-cuba-just-crickets-hard-at-work/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/10/recorded-sounds-that-pl... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbnZG85IRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbnZG85IRo