{"id":18880,"date":"2012-01-17T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=18880"},"modified":"2012-02-11T04:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T09:16:28","slug":"state-of-mass-pronounces-wind-turbine-syndrome-expletive-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/state-of-mass-pronounces-wind-turbine-syndrome-expletive-deleted\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Mass. pronounces Wind Turbine Syndrome [expletive deleted]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is no evidence for a set of health effects, from exposure to wind turbines[,] that could be characterized as a ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome.’\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

—“Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: \u00a0Report of Independent Expert Panel<\/a>,” Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection and Mass. Dept. of Public Health (Jan. 2012), p. ES-7.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n*<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Editor’s note<\/em>: \u00a0The self-styled “expert panel” didn’t interview a single Falmouth, MA, “Wind Turbine Syndrome” victim<\/a>. \u00a0No kidding!<\/p>\n

Nor did it speak to Dr. Pierpont or Dr. Sarah Laurie (Australia) or Dr. Robert McMurtry (Canada) or Dr. Amanda Harry (UK) or to any of the peer reviewers for Dr. Pierpont’s book.<\/p>\n

Really, no kidding!<\/p>\n

Best we can tell, they did a (cherry-picked) “literature search.” \u00a0Then they subjected that literature (which included Pierpont’s book) to a set of “scientific” criteria which rendered the evidence for WTS … null and void. \u00a0\u201cWhere the complex equation equals zero” (Rilke).<\/p>\n

Hence, all you people who have abandoned your homes or been forced to sell them to the rapacious wind developers, and all you people who are still at home and suffering—your symptoms and experience are, by all canonical “whistles & bells” of science and medicine, meaningless<\/em>. \u00a0What you are experiencing is unintelligible & inscrutable to real science and medicine.<\/p>\n

I repeat, your symptoms cannot be “measured” or otherwise “properly” documented and “proven.” \u00a0Or, at a minimum, your symptoms have<\/em> not been<\/em> hereto<\/em> properly measured or documented, and hence they remain unproven. \u00a0(And quite possibly, unprovable, <\/em>given the manner whereby science and medicine slice and dice “evidence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0By the way, forget about Pierpont’s book; it’s nothing more than journalism.)<\/p>\n

In sum, real, honest-to-god science & clinical medicine have no place for you lost souls. \u00a0You are ghosts, self-created phantoms, conjured up through your own fervid imaginations. \u00a0You are living a self-inflicted … conjecture. \u00a0A conjecture which, in your hysteria, translates into self-torture.<\/p>\n

As far as Big Brother Science is concerned, all of you are a self-fabricated, irrelevant, and noisy anecdote. \u00a0A case study in NIMBYism taken to extreme, yet bogus, clinical lengths.<\/p>\n

End of story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sigh. \u00a0Ruminating on this report, I think of A.E. Housman’s remark,\u00a0\u201cNature, not content with denying Mr. X the faculty of thinking, has endowed him with the faculty of writing”—in this instance, 164 pp. of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. \u00a0. There is no evidence for a set of health effects, from exposure to wind turbines[,] that could be characterized as a ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome.’\u00a0* —“Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: \u00a0Report of Independent Expert Panel,” Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection and Mass. Dept. of Public Health (Jan. 2012), p. ES-7. . *\u00a0Editor’s note: \u00a0The self-styled “expert panel” didn’t interview a single Falmouth, MA, “Wind Turbine Syndrome” victim. \u00a0No kidding! Nor did it speak to Dr. Pierpont or Dr. Sarah Laurie (Australia) or Dr. Robert McMurtry (Canada) or Dr. Amanda Harry (UK) or to any of the peer reviewers for Dr. Pierpont’s book. Really, no kidding! Best we can tell, they did a (cherry-picked) “literature search.” \u00a0Then they subjected that literature (which included Pierpont’s book) to a set of “scientific” criteria which rendered the evidence for WTS … null and void. \u00a0\u201cWhere the complex equation equals zero” (Rilke). Hence, all you people who have abandoned your homes or been forced to sell them to the rapacious wind developers, and all you people who are still at home and suffering—your symptoms and experience are, by all canonical “whistles & bells” of science and medicine, meaningless. \u00a0What you are experiencing is unintelligible & inscrutable to real science and medicine. I repeat, your symptoms cannot be “measured” or otherwise “properly” documented and “proven.” \u00a0Or, at a minimum, your symptoms have not been hereto properly measured or documented, and hence they remain unproven. \u00a0(And quite possibly, unprovable, given the manner whereby science and medicine slice and dice “evidence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0By the way, forget about Pierpont’s book; it’s nothing more than journalism.) In sum, real, honest-to-god science & clinical medicine have no place for you lost souls. \u00a0You are ghosts, self-created phantoms, conjured up through your own fervid imaginations. \u00a0You are living a self-inflicted … conjecture. \u00a0ARead 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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18880"}],"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=18880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}