London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - LSHTM 120 keynote lecture: Alumni on the frontline of innovation 2019

Lucibee said:
I found it fascinating that he modestly says his career has been marked by failure
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A rare point of agreement.

Unfortunately he chose to treat his failures as personal success, no matter the consequences to others.

He seems a rare animal who acknowledges his failures but seems to treat them as being universal, rather than personal, that his personal failures mean everyone would fail, therefore the matter is settled and should be codified into practice.

In short: hubris. Possibly the worst trait in a physician, one for which all the consequences are born by vulnerable people, which he then chose to attack, malign and oppress, possibly knowing it was leading to massive suffering and death but not particularly bothered by it since he's done pretty well for himself.

As usual, it's the reaction of others that is telling. That he is celebrated as a great physician despite objectively being a failure. Really disappointed in the medical profession for this.
 
Amw66 said:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14593-wind-turbines-make-bat-lungs-explode/

Air Pressure is a trigger for my daughter - who knows what living near a wind farm may do...
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The early models of small wind turbines had that problem. It was a very real problem and anyone who has ever dealt with a beeping fire alarm for any period of time understands how even a small whiny noise can be a real pain in the donkey. Not particularly surprising that the people most likely to investigate this, older men, are unlikely to hear it and thus reject the hypothesis.

Fortunately larger wind turbines are way more efficient so small ones are rarely used anymore, otherwise using different designs.
 
Was infra sound ( low frequency wavelength) not researched as a potential weapon in 1950s?
 
Amw66 said:
Was infra sound ( low frequency wavelength) not researched as a potential weapon in 1950s?
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Indeed, and it persists to this day, apparently... The psychoacoustic effect of infrasonic, sonic and ultrasonic frequencies within non-lethal military warfare techniques.

This article on Slate conflates the Havana sonic attack with mass hysteria and likens it to wind turbine syndrome: Cuba's sonic attacks.

But more recent evidence suggests that it might have been due to crickets.

Attributing such things to "mass hysteria" is just lazy.
 
Lucibee said:
Indeed, and it persists to this day, apparently... The psychoacoustic effect of infrasonic, sonic and ultrasonic frequencies within non-lethal military warfare techniques.

This article on Slate conflates the Havana sonic attack with mass hysteria and likens it to wind turbine syndrome: Cuba's sonic attacks.

But more recent evidence suggests that it might have been due to crickets.

Attributing such things to "mass hysteria" is just lazy.
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I thought the Havana incident had subsequently found to be related to pesticide use against Zika virus? The place had been doused with 5 times the normal amount to be on the safe side?
Perhaps I am confused with something else.
 
Amw66 said:
I thought the Havana incident had subsequently found to be related to pesticide use against Zika virus? The place had been doused with 5 times the normal amount to be on the safe side?
Perhaps I am confused with something else.
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That seems much more likely. Found it here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enquête-1.5288609

I'm now wondering whether I've been poisoning myself by liberal use of ant powder to get rid of the pesky carpet moths. :sick::dead: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enquête-1.5288609
 
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