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| Canunda Wind Farm
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| Toora turbines
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don't you believe it).
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| More Toora turbines
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contented
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| Clements Gap turbines
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I think the lambs were actually dead.
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| I spent the night in a pup tent behind the car
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| | I had a good night's sleep, but then there are probably
some who would tell you that I am in league with the Devil and hence
immune to Diabolical Wind Turbine Radiation!
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Sage advice
People like
Sarah Laurie of the
Waubra Foundation
(WF) travel around Australia, indeed, around the world, telling anyone who will listen that if a wind farm is going to be built near them they must expect to become ill.
There are those out there who claim that this is a self-fulfilling prophecy, that when she spreads the expectation of sickness it makes people anxious and
fearful and the anxiety and fear can then lead to illness; it's called the
nocebo effect.
But this is just what health scientists say; 'Dr' Sarah Laurie knows better.
After all, she is a doctor.
Some qualification
Oh, OK, it is true that Sarah Laurie is not
qualified to do medical research
and is not registered as a doctor and has stopped calling herself a doctor
and hasn't practiced medicine for years, and didn't
practice very long; but at least she did practice medicine for a while.
And it is true that the Waubra Foundation has nothing to do with the town
of Waubra and the local people are highly annoyed at the Foundation using
their town's good name and linking it to a
disease;
and then you would have to admit that the WF really has no right to call
itself a foundation and it has had its 'health promotion charity' status
taken away by the authorities.
And it has been argued that there are
very good reasons to believe that wind turbines
don't cause illness at all,
but these are all quibbling matters, not really worth mentioning at all.
Immunity in some
Strangely, those of us who find no particular faults with wind turbines, those
who have (and get paid for having) turbines on their property, and those who
work on wind farms, are mysteriously immune to the DWTR.
Some of us (I must admit that I am one such) even enjoy
sleeping beneath turbines
and get a perfectly good night's sleep every time we do so; some even claim
that the sound of the turbines is restful (again, I must admit fault here).
How silly is that?
Ignorant scientists
Australia's new PM,
Tony Abbott well knows that science
and scientists are not to be trusted.
That is why his government is the first in about 80 years without a Science
Minister (it might also be a contributing factor to his being one of the
least popular Prime Ministers in Australian history).
Sure science has shown us how the Universe works, but when you get down to it,
scientists admit that
science proves nothing.
While the ignorant scientists of this world are
unable to find any evidence that turbines make people sick, those who have more 'open minds' (Sarah Laurie often tells us we must have very open minds) know that
turbines cause hundreds of illnesses.
Struth, there are 14 illnesses caused by wind turbines starting with 'A' alone!
PM Abbott is intending to fund a study (see Flinders University Wind Farm Noise Study) into the health impacts of wind turbines, while at the same time saying that he can't imagine why anyone would demonise coal (which causes at least two million
deaths each year from air
pollution).
Infrasound doesn't fit the bill
There has been a tendency in recent times to blame wind turbine illnesses on
infrasound, but there
are problems with this.
The South Australian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
produced a
report titled "Infrasound levels near windfarms and in other
environments" in January 2013.
Extracts from the Executive Summary:
- "Infrasound levels at houses adjacent to wind farms ... are no higher
than those at houses located a considerable distance from wind farms."
- "... there did not appear to be any noticeable contribution from the
wind farm to the G-weighted infrasound level ..."
There are many other reasons why it seems quite ridiculous to blame
infrasound; not the least of which is that infrasound is quite harmless
unless it is at very high levels.
DWTR is the cause
That is why I think that the cause must be Diabolical Wind Turbine Radiation.
Infrasound, being a physical thing, has to obey the laws of physics.
If the rays are diabolical then science doesn't come into it.
Whatever it is that is coming from wind turbines doesn't obey the
inverse square law
of physics (everything else does).
If it did, how could we explain the fact that people like wind farm workers
are immune and people living kilometres away get sick?
And why is it that wind turbine illnesses are practically unknown in
Western Australia and in non-English speaking countries.
But if the mysterious radiation is diabolical then it doesn't have to
obey the laws of physics; how is that for clever?
The rays, being diabolical, are free to zero in on special people and ignore
the rest of us, just as demons do (or so we are told).
Where should you look for reliable information?
Anyway, anyone with any intelligence would ignor the scientists and look
to reliable sources such as
Alan Jones,
Stop These Things and the
Landscape Guardians
for their facts.
OK, OK, I know that STT is written by someone who is not willing
to give his own name and who thinks that name-calling is clever, and I know
that the Landscape Guardians are not
really interested in environmental matters at all; they just oppose wind
farms and pretend to be environmentalists,
and I know that Alan Jones is continually in trouble with ACMA (the
Australian Communications and Media Authority) for passing off his opinion
as fact, but they know everything about wind power!
(Take their words for it.)
Mention of Dr Laurie's limited medical experience might be condemned as a
personal attack.
I believe that it is justified because she has relied heavily on her title of
doctor, until very recently, to legitimise her claims.
Now that she is calling herself simply Sarah Laurie perhaps people will take
less notice of her ridiculous, unsupported, and above all, harmful claims.
People respect medical doctors because medical doctors are generally very
careful to behave responsibly and give reliable advice.
I believe that Sarah Laurie has misused this respect and has harmed the
respected position of medical doctors in general.