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Soviet-era pseudoscience lurks behind 'Havana syndrome' worries
- ggm 3y agoI would have said "cold war era" because much of the mystique here comes from the US intelligence spin, much if not most of this hysteria about soviet junk science is inferred from publications and leaks. It's not evident that there is any science here, soviet or otherwise. I have no doubt political distortions inside the USSR fuelled some whacky cult behaviour in scientists, but it would be a mistake to class the entire problem as "soviet" when during the same tineframe the US funded blue sky research into PSI, and attempts to weaponise drug induced psychosis. I don't mean this as whataboutery: the intelligence take on things severely distorted the perception both ways of what was needed, useful and plausible.
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoIf you watch the 60 minutes documentaries on the subject, there's loads of victims suffering permanent injuries.
- cleande 3y agoAnything written by Keith Kloor should be quickly dismissed for his prior behavior alone. Specifically though, the Frey Effect is not pseudoscience and is a well known microwave-auditory effect studied extensively by James Lin and written about in his textbook Auditory Effects of Microwave Radiation.