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The article starts with this: >Despite at least 19 reviews of the scientific evidence universally concluding that exposure to wind farm sound doesn’t trigger a
by mrjangles 5y ago
The article starts with this:
>Despite at least 19 reviews of the scientific evidence universally concluding that exposure to wind farm sound doesn’t trigger adverse health effects, people continue to report feeling unwell because they live near wind turbines.
So I did a DDG search and the first thing that comes up is:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653647/#b14-0590473 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653647/#b14-05...
Which supports the conclusion that wind turbines lead to bad health affects, and inside it has at least 10 references to other studies that showed the same health affects.
Great, of course they don't mention that their are studies that do support the bad health affect. This is deliberately trying to trick the reader into thinking that this is all there is. Of course notice their clever wording. They know that would be a lie so they don't say it, they just imply it.
>In our new study, we took 60 participants and divided them into two groups – positive and negative. We then exposed them to audible wind farm sound, overlaid with infrasound, during two seven-minute listening sessions.
This is the kind of nonsense pseudo science that is prevalent everywhere in academia these days. The people claiming to get sick do so after months of tolerating the non stop sound. Seven minutes listening obviously isn't going to determine anything. And of course if you trick people into thinking that what they are about to listen to in the next 7 minutes will hurt them, then some will claim they were hurt. It is amazing people get paid for this.
>A study released this week by South Australia’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) once again concluded there was no evidence linking noise from wind farms to sickness among residents living near the Waterloo Wind Farm.
This is like a tobacco company doing research that shows that smoking is harmless. Also, what does it even mean. People are getting sick, people are complaining, but don't worry, a study says it isn't actually happening. What does that even mean?
>A recent analysis of noise and health complaints in Australia found that adverse health reports have coincided with negative publicity about the health effects of wind farms
This is the only good study of the bunch. But a coincidence of negative publicity and people feeling empowered to come out and complain is not the same as saying that sickness was non existent before that. Certainly it seems most people stuck next to these things are very unhappy about it. Perhaps simply being miserable all the time is enough to make one sick. If that were the case then negative publicity would empower them to complain when before they felt powerless.
- n8cpdx 5y agoIf you read the cited study, light flickering, “a sense of injustice” and noise-induced annoyance are the health effects. So actually not really health effects in the sense a normal person would recognize. I am frustrated by people who are quick to NIMBY climate change and energy security solutions over the type of problems caused by every other type of industrial activities, including highways. Being miserable by noise, and not just adapting to it as nearly all people adapt to other kinds of constant noise, seems like an attitude issue. Feeling powerless comes from making unreasonable demands and trying to put personal preference over the greater needs of the community and society.