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Pollie Watch: More hot air from Sen Madigan

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This post was featured at Renew Economy, Australia’s leading source for energy news and analysis. Victorian Senator John Madigan (Democratic Labor Party) has alleged that Australia’s wind power generation sector is responsible for a health cover-up comparable to those perpetrated … Continue reading Pollie Watch: More hot air from Sen Madigan

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Study finds no evidence wind turbines make you sick – again

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Originally posted at The Conversation. View original here.  There is no reliable or consistent evidence that proximity to wind farms or wind farm noise directly causes health effects. That’s the finding of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) … Continue reading Study finds no evidence wind turbines make you sick – again

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Wind turbines don’t make you feel sick or healthy, but spin can

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Published by The Conversation. View the original article.

zygkx48c-1385598907By Fiona Crichton, PhD candidate in psychological medicine at University of Auckland.

Despite at least 19 reviews of the scientific evidence universally concluding that exposure to wind farm sound doesn’t trigger adverse health effects, people continue to report feeling unwell because they live near wind turbines.

We’ve known for some time that exposure to negative messages about wind farms makes people more likely to report feeling sick after exposure to turbines. And new research, published by my colleagues and I this week in the journal Health Psychology, shows positive messages about wind farms may have the opposite effect – improve perceptions of health. Continue reading “Wind turbines don’t make you feel sick or healthy, but spin can”