HOW THE PROTESTERS MAKE YOU ILL

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.

- 2 Thessalonians, II. xi.


Some people hear a constant background hum. In some places, this has been going on for years - decades, even. In the UK, this phenomenon first came to light as 'The Bristol Hum'. (Click here for more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8056284.stm)

Various theories have been put forward to account for the fact that people in different places experience this irritating humming. Tinnitus, 'oversensitive' hearing, roads, airports, industrial premises, have all been considered.

Some, no doubt, would blame the mysterious background hum on windfarms, especially if they happen to live near one.

But, hang on - this 'hum' has been experienced in places where there are no wind turbines, and was noticed some time before windfarms even began to appear in this country.

I have great sympathy for anyone suffering this incessant background noise. More studies need to be made of this phenomenon. But to insist, without any a priori evidence, that wind turbines are to blame is a logical fallacy. People experiencing this 'hum' will naturally, automatically, look for something in the vicinity to blame. But we all know how dangerous such assumptions can be. And to blame windfarms for a phenomenon which has been recorded in places where there are no windfarms, and at times when windfarms hadn't been built, is just plain daft. So more research is needed.

It is worth noting, though, that the description of the noise allegedly made by a Cumbrian windfarm at night, as given in the LBV TV video on VVASP's website, chimes with the reports of the mysterious background 'hum'. One of the residents interviewed in the slanted video stated that the sound was like an old boot going round and round in a washing machine. Anyone who has stood near a wind turbine will know that it sounds nothing like an old boot in a washing machine. But, to some at least, the 'Bristol Hum' sounds just like that, and produces exactly the same symptoms as those which have been blamed, by a few, on windfarms.

Which might suggest that the background hum isn't caused by windfarms at all.

Now, a week or two ago, New Scientist magazine ran a cover story looking at how the mind can make the body ill. The full article can be read here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.100-the-science-of-voodoo-when-mind-attacks-body.html?page=1

In many ways, the New Scientist article tells us nothing that we didn't already know - if you believe that you're going to be ill, the chances are that you will be.

Apparently, the so-called 'Bristol Hum' can be treated through hypnosis, relaxation techniques, counselling or psychotherapy. In other words, the way to make that irritating, generally untraceable background hum disappear is to stop worrying about it. Which, in a sense, is what the New Scientist article was indicating: people who have convinced themselves, without any good reason, that they are ill can be cured if their erroneous belief is altered.

The good news, then, is that both states - 'Bristol Hum' and psychogenic illness - can, if sensitively handled, be dealt with successfully. People hearing the mysterious hum, in the presence or absence of windfarms, can be helped to blot it out or, rather, not to keep dwelling on it, so that the noise then effectively disappears. And people who have made themselves ill, often dangerously so, for no good reason can be returned to health if they stop believing that something is harming them.

The bad news is that anti-wind farm protesters, such as VVASP, are determinedly exploiting the fears about windfarms in such a way as to make some of their neighbours ill.

Look at it this way: if people keep telling you that a windfarm built in your area will create (apparently unrecordable) noise at night, keeping you awake, forming a constant background hum, leading inevitably to mental health problems, there's a terrible chance that you might start to believe them.

Maybe you do suffer from 'oversensitive' hearing, in which case you will, consciously or subconsciously, be listening out constantly for the sound of a wind turbine. Maybe you can't actually hear them at all, but all that dangerous, irresponsible, anti-social rubbish spouted by nutcases like VVASP has sunk in. So that, even though you can't hear the windfarm, you begin to believe that you can, and that it's driving you out of your mind. Worse still, you might even start believing (as VVASP told you to) that some undetectable sound is infiltrating your home and your brain.

This is how reckless the protesters are being. So determined are they to prevent a windfarm appearing somewhere near where they live (for purely selfish and misguided reasons) that they will happily subject their friends and neighbours to unnecessary worry and the distinct possibility of illness. Let's be clear - people familiar with windfarms know that they're not noisy. The VVASP protesters want you to believe that they are. What is more, they want you to believe that this noise is especially noticeable at night, that the soundwaves move in mysterious ways, and that you will suffer appallingly as a result of having a wind turbine somewhere in the district.

VVASP, and their self-serving ilk around the country, want to make you ill, if only to justify their outrageous and out-dated opinions. They want you to suffer.

You don't have to believe them. Remember: the antidote to the 'Bristol Hum', and to any illness which is created solely by suggestion and the mind's ability to think itself ill, is to change the way you think.

If you want to be plagued by a noise which can't be recorded, measured, detected or quantified, all you have to do is believe VVASP's hysterical lies about Lenchwick Windfarm.

If you want to carry on with your life, unaffected by mysterious, phantom sounds, ignore VVASP's self-serving nonsense. It's as simple as that.

As the quotation at the top of this post indicates, God's punishment on liars is that they end up believing in lies. Let that fate befall those nimbies who tried to make their neighbours ill with their unfounded rumours and nonsense about windfarms. Whatever you do, don't fall for those lies yourself. They might make you ill.