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]