THE Australian Medical Association, the peak body for medical specialists in Australia, is just the latest of our most trusted health bodies to publicly state what is now not at all controversial that there is no scientific evidence to link wind turbines and health effects.
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The AMA explains that wind turbines produce infra sound at safe levels, which are far lower than those known to cause problems with human health.
This fact has been confirmed again and again, most recently by the South Australian EPA in their study at Waterloo Wind Farm in South Australia.
The AMA follows the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Victorian and New South Wales Departments of Health and the Public Health Association of Australia in coming to exactly the same conclusion.
In one aspect, they do go further than these bodies and suggest that "reporting of 'health scares' and misinformation regarding wind farm developments may contribute to heightened anxiety and community division".
Undaunted, Pat Gabb ("There is good evidence that turbines cause illness") proposes that when it comes to health, we should instead trust the word of politicians, radio shock jocks and anti-wind campaigning groups like the "Waubra" Foundation.
I think I'll go for a second opinion on that one.
