4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This first bonus episode features an interview with Mitchell Valdes Sosa, the director of the Cuban Center for Neuroscience, who offers his own diagnosis of what is behind the Havana Syndrome symptoms.
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0:30.0 | This is a bonus episode, a Cuban doctor's diagnosis. |
0:44.2 | So is Havana Syndrome real? |
0:46.4 | I don't think it is. |
0:48.3 | Mitchell Valdez-Sosa is a US-born doctor from Chicago, the son of Cuban parents, who |
0:53.2 | is today director of the Cuban Center for Neuroscience. |
0:56.9 | And during our trip, Cuban officials very much wanted me to talk to him. |
1:00.6 | When the first reports of strange sounds and debilitating after effects, first surfaced |
1:04.8 | among US diplomats and spies in Cuba in 2017, Valdez-Sosa was asked by the Cuban government |
1:11.0 | to lead a team to investigate what was happening. |
1:14.2 | When my producer Mark Seaman and I caught up with him in his amana office, he explained how |
1:18.3 | he and his Cuban colleagues quickly reached a conclusion about US government claims that |
1:22.7 | to health ailments being reported by US personnel were the result of targeted attacks from |
1:27.9 | some sort of secret microwave or energy weapon. |
1:31.4 | The story he insisted to us didn't make any sense. |
1:35.2 | So several scientists have agreed that there's no known source of energy that could behave |
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