Wind turbine syndrome

Wind turbine syndrome
Pseudomedical diagnosis
RisksNocebo

Wind turbine syndrome and wind farm syndrome are terms for the alleged medical condition related to the proximity of wind turbines.[1][2] Proponents claim that these effects include congenital abnormality, cancer, vertigo, nausea, autism, ADHD, death, tinnitus, stress, fatigue, memory loss, attention deficit, migraines and sleep deprivation.[3][4] for which there is no scientific backing.[1][5] The distribution of recorded events, however, correlates with media coverage of wind farm syndrome itself, and not with the presence or absence of wind farms.[5][6] Neither term is recognised by any international disease classification system, nor do they appear in any title or abstract in the United States National Library of Medicine's PubMed database.[7] Wind turbine syndrome has been characterized as pseudoscience.[8]

One Australian fossil fuel industry funded anti-wind farm astroturfing group, the Waubra Foundation, has been identified amongst those involved in promoting the idea of wind turbine syndrome.[9][10] An investigation led to the foundation being stripped of its status as a health promotion charity.[11][12]

  1. ^ a b "The "science" of wind turbine syndrome". Popular Science. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
  2. ^ Crighton, F; Chapman, S; Cundy, T; Petrie, KJ (November 2014). "The Link between Health Complaints and Wind Turbines: Support for the Nocebo Expectations Hypothesis". Frontiers in Public Health. 2 (220): 220. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2014.00220. PMC 4227478. PMID 25426482.
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  4. ^ Martin, Calvin Luther (15 August 2011). "Infrasound: Noise you can't hear, but feel—over huge distances". Wind Turbine Syndrome.
  5. ^ a b "Interview with Simon Chapman". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 October 2012.
  6. ^ Rourke, Alison (15 March 2013). "Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Simon Chapman (21 December 2011). "Much angst over wind turbines is just hot air". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. ^ Joshi, Ketan (8 November 2012). "The junk science of wind turbine syndrome". Business Spectator. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  9. ^ Rourke, Alison (15 March 2013). "Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds". The Guardian.
  10. ^ "Greens challenge Waubra Foundation tax status". The Australian. 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  11. ^ "Waubra Foundation, prominent anti-wind farm lobby, stripped of health promotion charity status". ABC News. December 19, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
  12. ^ Conroy, John (2014-12-19). "Waubra loses 'health promotion' charity status". Retrieved 2019-01-15.

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