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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."
The bonus, if you can call it that, is that it IS actually true. It's also raising the mercury levels in fish all over... we eat the fish... it used to be healthy and now it's a health risk. Burning things to heat water to turn things to create electric power is just bad.
Nuclear power, when managed properly and strictly, is the only way to go right now. Wind is kind of good, but it can't stand alone and neither can solar. Geothermal isn't available everywhere. So what else is there?
People do need to take their heads out of their asses.