{"id":12125,"date":"2011-01-10T20:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=12125"},"modified":"2012-01-21T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:50:35","slug":"pierpont-kos-mccunney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/pierpont-kos-mccunney\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierpont KO’s McCunney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Calvin Luther Martin, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s difficult to get Nina Pierpont to respond to her critics. \u00a0“Calvin,” she fires back with withering look, “it’s a waste of my time. (1) I wrote the book<\/a>. \u00a0(2) Salt & Hullar<\/a> published their research in a peer-reviewed journal<\/a>. \u00a0(3) Salt continues to publish<\/a>. \u00a0(4) The Society for Wind Vigilance<\/a> held its WTS conference last October, where loads of clinical evidence was presented<\/a>. \u00a0(5) Every day, people come forward—around the world—complaining of the same symptoms I described<\/a>. \u00a0My critics never, ever, interview a single WTS victim<\/a>! \u00a0Never<\/a><\/em>! \u00a0I waste my time replying to their clinical ignorance<\/a> and—what’s worse—confounded intransigence<\/a>.”\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, I recently succeeded. \u00a0Sort of. \u00a0In response to a man who’s got a new gig\u00a0railing against Wind Turbine Syndrome<\/a>. \u00a0A medical doctor who should know better. \u00a0Like a man who’s found Jesus (or a lucrative corporate sponsor), Robert J. McCunney<\/a> has been fervently working the\u00a0New England\u00a0states<\/a>,\u00a0preaching “Prepare ye the way of Big Wind<\/a>! \u00a0Wind Turbine Syndrome is bunk!”<\/p>\n

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By way of background, McCunney was one of the authors of the AWEA-CanWEA rebuttal<\/a> to Pierpont’s “Wind Turbine Syndrome” book—a transparent and shameful farce released by Big Wind mere days after Pierpont’s book came out. \u00a0(It would have been impossible for these jokers to have read her book and composed their report in 2 or 3 days. \u00a0Suggests they . . . didn’t read it, but based their response on book excerpts posted online over the previous few years. \u00a0Hardly respectable scholarship on their part. \u00a0But, then, you’re dealing with Big Wind and its hirelings.)<\/p>\n

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As 2010 wound down, McCunney testified before the Public Service Board of the State of Vermont (November). \u00a0Shortly thereafter a Vermont physician forwarded McCunney’s testimony\u00a0and asked Pierpont if she would respond.<\/p>\n

She did—in a “back of the envelope” manner. \u00a0When I gingerly suggested she re-work this into a more formal statement, she shot me that withering look.<\/p>\n

Here it is<\/a>. \u00a0Best I could do.<\/p>\n

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Robert J. McCunney, MD<\/p><\/div>\n

My two cents? \u00a0For years I was a professor at a worldclass university—just as MIT is worldclass. \u00a0I read McCunney’s affidavit and wonder how on earth this man got tenure. \u00a0Scholarship does not appear to be this man’s strong suit.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on this whole tragic comedy and people like McCunney, I recall H.L. Mencken’s portrayal of Wm. Jennings Bryan. \u00a0“Bryan always had one great advantage in controversy,” recalled Mencken after the famous Scopes (“Monkey”) Trial.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0was never burdened with\u00a0an understanding of his opponent’s case. His talents, indeed,\u00a0were always far more homiletical than dialectical; he\u00a0was at his best, not in argument, but in denunciation. The\u00a0fact made itself felt brilliantly during his last great combat\u00a0with the evolutionists. Whenever he stated their doctrines\u00a0he stated them inaccurately, and whenever he undertook\u00a0to refute them he resorted to nonsense. His mind was of\u00a0the sort that is simply unable to grasp scientific facts. They\u00a0fevered him as flies fever a bull, and he got rid of them by\u00a0lashing his tail.<\/p>\n

\u2014Mencken, “The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos from the Chicago Tribune” (1958) p. 131.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2020 See this statement<\/a> by Robert A. Dobie, MD, a physician who ought to know better. \u00a0The man actually has outstanding credentials. \u00a0Dobie has often represented industry<\/a> in his consulting and legal testimony, and he has published important papers in otolaryngology<\/a>. \u00a0He was one of the authors of the AWEA-CanWEA report trashing Pierpont’s research—one of the shameless authors who did not read her book before signing that report. \u00a0One wonders about his professional ethics.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2014Calvin Luther Martin, PhD It’s difficult to get Nina Pierpont to respond to her critics. \u00a0“Calvin,” she fires back with withering look, “it’s a waste of my time. (1) I wrote the book. \u00a0(2) Salt & Hullar published their research in a peer-reviewed journal. \u00a0(3) Salt continues to publish. \u00a0(4) The Society for Wind Vigilance held its WTS conference last October, where loads of clinical evidence was presented. \u00a0(5) Every day, people come forward—around the world—complaining of the same symptoms I described. \u00a0My critics never, ever, interview a single WTS victim! \u00a0Never! \u00a0I waste my time replying to their clinical ignorance and—what’s worse—confounded intransigence.”\u2020 Nevertheless, I recently succeeded. \u00a0Sort of. \u00a0In response to a man who’s got a new gig\u00a0railing against Wind Turbine Syndrome. \u00a0A medical doctor who should know better. \u00a0Like a man who’s found Jesus (or a lucrative corporate sponsor), Robert J. McCunney has been fervently working the\u00a0New England\u00a0states,\u00a0preaching “Prepare ye the way of Big Wind! \u00a0Wind Turbine Syndrome is bunk!” By way of background, McCunney was one of the authors of the AWEA-CanWEA rebuttal to Pierpont’s “Wind Turbine Syndrome” book—a transparent and shameful farce released by Big Wind mere days after Pierpont’s book came out. \u00a0(It would have been impossible for these jokers to have read her book and composed their report in 2 or 3 days. \u00a0Suggests they . . . didn’t read it, but based their response on book excerpts posted online over the previous few years. \u00a0Hardly respectable scholarship on their part. \u00a0But, then, you’re dealing with Big Wind and its hirelings.) As 2010 wound down, McCunney testified before the Public Service Board of the State of Vermont (November). \u00a0Shortly thereafter a Vermont physician forwarded McCunney’s testimony\u00a0and asked Pierpont if she would respond. She did—in a “back of the envelope” manner. \u00a0When I gingerlyRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}