The Nocebo Effect & Wind Turbines
I’ve been trying to track down the Australian stuff re wind turbine syndrome and the nocebo effect and found this quote
The 2009 American Wind Energy Association and Canadian Wind Energy Association study investigated the nocebo affect concluding that: “the large volume of media coverage devoted to alleged adverse health effects of wind turbines understandably creates an anticipatory fear in some that they will experience adverse effects from wind turbines. Every person is suggestible to some degree. The resulting stress, fear, and hyper‐vigilance may exacerbate or even create problems which would not otherwise exist. In this way, anti‐wind farm activists may be creating with their publicity some of the problems that they describe.”
I enclose the paper I found with further refs:
Wind Turbine Sound Fact Sheet - wind_turbine_sound_FactSheet
