Resource Documents: Nocebo (7 items)
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McMurtry commentary on Chapman “nocebo” paper
Author: McMurtry, Robert
‘Spatio-temporal differences in the history of health and noise complaints about Australian wind farms: evidence for the psychogenic, “communicated disease” hypothesis.’ Pre-Print: submitted for publication. Chapman S et al. 15 March 2013 [download] This paper appears to require more vigorous editing or peer review in regards to its bibliography and many other elements (see below). The references are highly selective and appear to reflect a confirmation bias by referencing industry and their consultants sources while omitting more than 20 peer . . .
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Can expectations produce symptoms from infrasound associated with wind turbines?
Author: Swinbanks, Malcolm
A Brief Peer Review of “Can Expectations Produce Symptoms From Infrasound Associated With Wind Turbines?” by Fiona Crichton, George Dodd, Gian Schmid, Greg Gamble & Keith J. Petrie, Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, March 2013 [download] The only information relating to the wind turbine infrasound simulation is that it was conducted at 40dB at 5Hz, test conditions which are essentially a complete non-event and which might just as well have been classed as “Sham”. So it is hardly surprising that . . .
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Chapman’s Nocebo Study
Author: Gulden, Wayne
Simon Chapman, a public-health professor in Australia, has long maintained that the health and annoyance issues from wind turbines that people complain about are the result of nocebo. Recently he published a study that purports to conclusively demonstrate that those health complaints are not caused by the wind turbines; rather they are caused by anti-wind activists (presumably like me) instilling these ideas into people by our writings. In an effort to give his study the fairest shake I could, I . . .
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