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Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth
eldavojohn writes "Just like the many stories surrounding alleged 'Wi-Fi sickness,' research is now showing that windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth instead of applying universally to windfarms. Areas that had never had any noise or health complaints were suddenly experiencing them after 2009 when anti-wind groups targeted populations surrounding windfarms. From the article, 'Eighteen reviews of the research literature on wind turbines and health published since 2003 had all reached the broad conclusion that there was very little evidence they were directly harmful to health.' While there's unfortunately no way to prove that someone is lying about how they feel, it's likely a mixture of confirmation bias, psychosomatic response, hypochondria, greed and hatred of seeing windmills on the horizon that drives this phenomenon."
We have to make this stuff up, so we can use our sick pay, which doesn't accumulate. It's use it or lose it.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
"Windfarm Sickness"? Lame.
"Don Quixote Syndrome"? Much better.
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
People are still just as stupid as they've always been...
Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be (Windpower)
Be seeing you...
It's probably Carbon Monoxide and Soot withdrawal that is causing these wind farm health episodes.
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HEY HEY HEY!
Get that common sense out of here!
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
You're just a shill for big wind. This is a legitimate controversy and anyone who disagrees with me is being paid to do so. Science has been wrong before. These people are putting profit ahead of my health! I'm not opposing science, I'm just opposing corporate greed. Mankind is toying with forces it doesn't fully understand! Have there ever been any long term studies proving that windfarms don't cause sickness?
Please pay attention to me.
Coal can be clean and safe too http://www.coalcares.org/cleanenergy.html
Everyone knows that the bad thing that windfarms cause is the slowing of the earths rotation.
yes I actually heard that from the mouth of one of the local nutjobs that are against the installation of a windfarm offshore.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
if people are really getting more intelligent, how do you explain Fox News?
Because previous generations were not smart enough to create such an advanced level of sensationalism. William Randolph Hearst could only dream of such an news organization, but it took another fifty+ years of advances in spin marketing to make such dreams a reality.
Or they have just become less capable of using proper grammar.
When eight hundred years old you reach, use grammar as well you will not.