Boss continues: «In some epidemics, actual clinical illness in some group members may spread as epidemic hysteria by the transmission of anxiety to groups observing those who were initially ill»; this sounds similar to the spreading of hysteria about wind
turbines by people like Dr Nina Pierpont and Sarah Laurie, who condition people to expect to feel ill if they go anywhere near a wind farm.
Some people have been made ill by anxiety and fear, due at least in part by what they have been told about wind
turbines by people like Dr Sarah Laurie and rumour - mongers like Senator Back.
Not exact matches
A physics major putting himself through MIT
by working on his father's salmon - fishing boat in Alaska, Damon says he is interested in «wind
turbines or things for the third world that don't make you feel
like a bad
person.»
What the Senator did not mention at all in his article in The Australian was the excellent research that has been done into the psychology of wind
turbines and health
by people like Fiona Chichton.
Interestingly it would also suggest that the efforts of organisations
like The Waubra Foundation and Sarah Laurie, with their foretelling of a health catastrophe brought about
by wind
turbines, are having no adverse effect on health (or again, only in a few
people).
The upper graph shows what we observe (wind farm workers close to wind
turbines having no symptoms of illness — right plots) and are told
by people like Ms Laurie (moderate to severe symptoms in householders at distances up to five or even 10 km — left plots).
How many of the «health» complaints are actually fabrications
by people who simply do not
like wind
turbines?