{"id":14818,"date":"2011-03-28T00:43:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2012-01-21T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:36:55","slug":"pierpont-blasts-health-report-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/pierpont-blasts-health-report-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierpont blasts health report (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b7<\/span>
\n“Wind turbines [health] report ‘pitiful’\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n

\u00b7<\/span>
\n\u2014Graham Lloyd<\/a>, Environment Editor, The Australian<\/a> (3\/26\/11)
\n\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor’s note<\/em>: \u00a0All the images and links, below, were added by WTS-com.<\/span><\/p>\n

A National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) report<\/a> dismissing concerns about wind turbines was a “pitiful and dubious document” that misrepresented research and relied on industry-funded reports, a Senate hearing<\/a> was told yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Nina Pierpont<\/a>, MD (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Princeton, in Population Biology\/Behavioral Ecology)<\/h6>\n

Nina Pierpont, the US-based physician whose research led to the term Wind Turbine Syndrome, said the NHMRC<\/a> report relied on statements by government departments and wind industry lobby groups and was not a credible report.<\/p>\n

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To read “Wind Turbines & Health: \u00a0A Rapid Review of the Evidence,”
\nclick on Alfred E. Neuman<\/a>, above.<\/h6>\n

“This is not a scientific critique; there is obvious conflict of interest in what these documents and people have to say,” Dr Pierpont told the Senate hearing by telephone hook-up. \u00a0[Click <\/span>here<\/a> for Pierpont’s opening remarks to the Committee<\/span>.]\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NHMRC public statement<\/a> published last July has been widely quoted in submissions to the Senate inquiry into the impacts of wind farm developments in regional areas.<\/p>\n

The NHMRC<\/a> report said there was “presently no published scientific evidence to positively link wind turbines with adverse health effects”.<\/p>\n

Dr Pierpont said the US National Institutes of Health<\/a> had referred to “real scientific articles” that took “quite a different view of the physiological effects of infrasound and the potential effects of proximity to wind turbines on human health”.<\/p>\n

Her wind turbine syndrome includes sleep disturbance, high blood pressure, headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, nausea, rapid heart rate and panic attacks.<\/p>\n

She recommended more research be undertaken into the effect of infrasound, or very low-frequency sound waves.<\/p>\n

The Senate hearing was told that, despite requests, the NHMRC had not made a submission to the inquiry.<\/p>\n

CSIRO<\/a> social scientists Peta Ashworth<\/a> and Nina Hall<\/a> [see\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>] told the inquiry the CSIRO had not conducted any research into the health impacts of wind farms but had relied on a survey of newspaper clippings and the NHMRC paper.<\/p>\n

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Peta Ashworth<\/a><\/h6>\n

They said the CSIRO had not reviewed Dr Pierpont’s work because it had not come up in a search of a database of peer-reviewed work.<\/p>\n

Dr Pierpont told the inquiry her work had been published as a book with peer reviews.<\/p>\n

Family First Senator Steve Fielding<\/a> asked whether the CSIRO had “a vested commercial interest” because it was supplying smart load technology to wind energy companies.<\/p>\n

Ms Ashworth and Dr Hall said they did not know.<\/p>\n

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Nina Hall, PhD<\/a> (in “Environmental Studies,” 2009)<\/h6>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b7 “Wind turbines [health] report ‘pitiful’\u201d \u00b7 \u2014Graham Lloyd, Environment Editor, The Australian (3\/26\/11) \u00b7 Editor’s note: \u00a0All the images and links, below, were added by WTS-com. A National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) report dismissing concerns about wind turbines was a “pitiful and dubious document” that misrepresented research and relied on industry-funded reports, a Senate hearing was told yesterday. Nina Pierpont, MD (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Princeton, in Population Biology\/Behavioral Ecology) Nina Pierpont, the US-based physician whose research led to the term Wind Turbine Syndrome, said the NHMRC report relied on statements by government departments and wind industry lobby groups and was not a credible report. To read “Wind Turbines & Health: \u00a0A Rapid Review of the Evidence,” click on Alfred E. Neuman, above. “This is not a scientific critique; there is obvious conflict of interest in what these documents and people have to say,” Dr Pierpont told the Senate hearing by telephone hook-up. \u00a0[Click here for Pierpont’s opening remarks to the Committee.]\u00a0<\/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\/14818"}],"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=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}