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A new wind energy problem – hypochondria

Tory Shepherd: Latest health faddism is related to wind turbines but it’s an old complaint – hypochondria  The Advertiser, 25 Feb 14,THE evidence is mounting that wind turbines cause a very specific malaise known as hypochondria, which can be a debilitating anxiety about one’s health, despite the absence of any actual disease.

Professor Yasmin Haskell, the chief investigator at the University of WA’s ARC Centre for the History of Emotions unearthed a gem of medical history from a 17th century doctor, Malachias Geiger. He wrote:

“Lots of common and country folk, of both sexes, come to me very frequently seeking advice and cures for murmurings and motions, continual and extraordinary, persuading themselves most stubbornly that they have accidentally swallowed the spawn of frogs or other beasts in drinking water, from which, in their bodies, those beasts have thereafter hatched and been nourished … Since I have to agree with them, whether I like it or not, in deference to their most fixed melancholic impressions, I prescribe either vomitives or cathartic medicines, and I expel these imaginary beasts with their melancholy feces, not without ample incantations, to the great relief of the sick.”

Bring on the vomitives and the cathartic medicines, because we have an epidemic in Australia of people who need their imaginary beasts with their melancholy faeces expelled.

Yet another report into wind farms and human health has found scant evidence that those big graceful turbines do anything more than reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

The National Health and Medical Research Council, our top health research mob, has looked at all the evidence. Again. Because some of the people who live near wind farms are convinced that something terrible is going on…..

Annoyance. I myself suffer severe annoyance at the money wasted looking into this mythical syndrome.http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/tory-shepherd-latest-health-faddism-is-related-to-wind-turbines-but-its-an-old-complaint-hypochondria/story-fni6unxq-1226837538479

February 26, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized