Intro -- Wind turbine syndrome -- Wind turbine syndrome -- Contents -- List of figures -- Editorial note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Early close personal encounters -- Three Australian Senate inquiries -- Understanding public health anxieties -- Outline of this book -- The history and growth of windfarms, and early objections -- Denmark takes the lead -- Windfarms in Australia -- Early objections in Australia -- Six non-health arguments against windfarms -- 'Wind energy is unreliable and uneconomical' -- 'Wind power is only viable if subsidised by the taxpayer' -- 'Wind is intermittent, so wind power can never be a serious source of power' -- 'Wind turbines are ugly and ruin landscapes': aesthetic objections -- 'The energy cost of manufacturing a wind turbine is never recouped in its operational life' -- 'Windfarms devalue surrounding properties' -- 'Wind turbines kill many birds and bats' -- 'Wind turbines are a danger to aircraft' -- 'Wind turbines are a fire hazard' -- The advent of noise and health complaints -- The Harry report -- The Toora report -- Nina Pierpont declares 'wind turbine syndrome' -- Calvin Luther Martin -- 'Vibroacoustic disease' -- One more try? -- Silent and sickening? Infrasound -- Decibels and hertz -- 247 symptoms and diseases, and counting -- Animals too -- 'Wind turbine syndrome' symptoms are common in all communities -- Florid language -- How loud? -- How painful? -- Core problems with health claims about windfarms -- Acute effects from wind turbine exposure -- Only the 'susceptible' suffer -- A disease that only speaks English? -- Case reports -- Past medical records of complainants -- Small turbines not noxious? -- Is money an antidote to windfarm complaints? -- A tale of two turbine hosts -- Abandoned homes and 'windfarm refugees' -- How did I check? -- What did I find?.

Are windfarms the new tobacco, asbestos or thalidomide? -- The best evidence opponents have to offer -- Early data on annoyance -- Alec Salt's work on rodent cochlea outer hair cells -- Nissenbaum, Hanning and Aramini's sleep disturbance study -- Daniel Shepherd and the Makara Valley sleep study -- Iranian windfarm worker's sleep problems -- Japanese brains 'cannot achieve a relaxed state' after wind turbine exposure -- Brains are again 'excited' by infrasound -- Steven Cooper's windfarm 'signature' study -- The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society -- Carl Phillips -- Reviewing the evidence -- The 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Review -- Health Canada study -- Sleep disturbance -- Stress -- Do wind turbines annoy people? -- The psychogenics of wind turbine complaints -- Outrage factors -- Health concerns inform negative expectations -- Placebo and nocebo effects: an illustration from drug trials and pain studies -- The symptoms attributed to windfarms -- Retrospective symptom reporting: subjectivity and recall bias -- The social transmission of symptoms -- The social contagion effect -- Individual differences -- Negative attitudes to wind turbines and noise annoyance -- Positive context -- A series of experimental studies -- Sham controlled study -- Implications for windfarms -- Case study in fomenting anxiety -- Dissemination of negative information in the local community -- Negative information from the internet -- Submissions to VCAT -- Opponents of windfarms in Australia -- How widespread is opposition to windfarms in Australia? -- Shooting themselves in the foot -- A failed rally -- The Landscape Guardians -- The Waubra Foundation -- Activities -- Stop These Things -- Other opponent groups -- Prominent individual windfarm opponents -- Upstairs-downstairs: the sociology of opposition.

Perennial victims and professional objectors -- Rejected or ineligible windfarm hosts -- 'Professional' opponents -- Sarah Laurie -- Noel Dean -- Ann and Gus Gardner -- Les Huson -- George Papadopoulos -- George and the world of woo -- Bruce Rapley -- Politicians -- The media -- How the anti-wind lobby reacts when challenged -- Unqualified to contribute -- The Australian goes on the attack -- A wind-industry stooge -- Expert witness in legal case -- An ivory-tower academic who refuses to meet with windfarm victims -- If at first you don't succeed … -- Tactics used by anti-wind interests -- Defamatory emails to politicians -- Complaints to my university -- Allegations of unethical research -- Threats of intimidation -- Defamation proceedings -- Strategies for reducing anxiety and complaints -- Going forward -- Addressing health concerns and correcting misinformation -- Corrections should be presented simply and concretely, and repeated -- Corrections should be accompanied by coherent alternative explanations for events -- Pre-emptive inoculation messages ('prebunking') -- Fair process -- Fairness of negotiations with potential host landowners -- Fairness to neighbours -- Complaint-handling procedures -- Noise should be measured in decibels, not metres -- Distributive justice -- The natural history of complaints -- Appendix: 247 symptoms, diseases and aberrant behaviours attributed to wind turbine exposure -- Works cited -- Further reading -- Research papers -- Opinion pieces and blog posts -- Index.

Featuring a detailed examination of the scientific evidence, an investigation into nocebo effects, profiles of leading windfarm opponents, and an account of the strategies use by anti-windfarm interests, Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease is a critical account of the rise of the anti-windfarm movement.

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