Wind Power on Radio National

ABC's Radio National Background Briefing program aired "An Ill Wind", an interesting expose on Wind Farms last weekend (Sunday 26 May 13). Key points included a discussion on the so called 'health effects" and the various claims and counter claims by those concerned. Most authorities who have investigated the effects of wind farms on health of those exposed show no ill effects. Anecdotal 'evidence' suggests otherwise.
An Auckland PhD student, Fiona Crichton,  investigated this in the controlled environment in her laboratory.
Most telling was the statement "Because infrasound is below the threshold of human hearing and you actually can't detect it, you can tell people they're being exposed to infrasound and they're not." Its called a Sham Paradigm.

Wind Turbines 2007

So that is what she did, exposed two groups of people to infrasound and no infrasound, after priming them differently (high expectancy of suggestion of ill health, and low expectancy"
The results: "In the high expectancy group they experienced an elevation of symptoms both during sham and during infrasound. The low expectancy group didn't experience any symptomatic change at all. There was no physiological impact of the infrasound, but it was all about expectancy"

As a librarian I see many of our pop psychology books discuss the power of  positive thinking. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, was particularly popular the last few years.
So this study demonstrates the negative aspect of the human mind, the belief that things will make you ill leading to ill health. Its all about expectancy!

But of course, those affected, would never change their mind!

Programs such as these on the ABC are often not aired by the commercial media. Which makes the Getup Campaign to Save the ABC and SBS from interference and cuts all the more necessary.

So can we save the Bananas from a liberal Blend?