WIND TURBINE SYNDROME ~ More Than Noise !

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~ Are Wind Turbines Hazardous to your Health?
[05.12.10]
ANDY BROMAGE OF THE SEVEN DAYS
VERMONTS INDEPENDANT VOICE RECENTLY REPORTED THAT

State Rep. David Potter (D-Rutland) told Statehouse reporters at a January press conference: “It’s pretty well established that industrial wind turbines can cause significant health and safety issues for some folks living near them.”

Bromage also reported about a meeting where some Vermonters got an earful about wind turbine syndrome from one of the theory’s leading purveyors,
Dr. Michael Nissenbaum, a Northern Maine Medical Center physician who found mysterious health problems among homeowners living near a wind farm in Mars Hill, Maine.

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Taking the opposite view was Dr. Robert McCunney, a staff physician at Massachusetts General Hospital’s pulmonary division who coauthored a study for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) that found turbine noise can be “annoying,” but is not causally linked to health problems.

 THE OTHER SIDE
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McCunney says he typed “wind turbine syndrome” into PubMed, an online database of 19 million citations for peer-reviewed biomedical research, and the search turned up nothing. Likewise, a search for “vibroacoustic disease,” another syndrome supposedly linked to wind turbines, revealed no case — control studies or longitudinal studies — the ones scientists consider valid, McCunney says.

McCunney’s group did no original research, but rather reviewed and compiled findings from a dozen other studies.

I would like to add my two cents

Pub med does have articles about symptoms and manifestation of Vibrocustic disease , there were 36 articles published about Vibrocoustic disease and low frequency noise. On the one hand,
McCunney stated that Wind Turbine Syndrome Does not exist because it has not been published in Pub Med, additionally he said that the articles that are published in Pub Med that recognize that Low frequency noise causes Vibrocoustic disease and a myriad of health problems are not reliable. He is actually discrediting his own credibility.



Below are three articles that I pulled out of the Pub Med data base specifically related to the ill effects of

wind turbine noise and humans

and one about underwater noise and the effects on porpoises and seals.
Plus there were 320 easy to find noise related articles, however I do not work for the AWEA so perhaps this somehow made it easier for me to find these articles .

I am not a Dr. and I was able to reason that since "Wind Turbine Syndrome" is a phrase coined by Dr. Nina Pierpont, and that she only recently published her book.
Perhaps there were no publications in pub med's data base titled Wind Turbine Syndrome, and if one were really interested in whether or not wind turbines were really hazardous to humans.
They would type in a phrase that would not limit their results unless they were intentionally trying to limit their results…
If you deny something it does not exist.

I would also like to point out that there are other databases available for research info that are reliable other than Pub Med.

Response to noise from modern wind farms in The Netherlands.


Perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise--a dose-response relationship.


Wind turbine noise, annoyance and self-reported health and well-being in different living environments.

Underwater noise from three types of offshore wind turbines: estimation of impact zones for harbor porpoises and harbor seals.