There will always be those who insist that any effort to develop clean, renewable energy

is a tyrannical example of government overreach, and they're often amenable to any idea that

paints such technologies as dangerous or harmful.

Wind turbine syndrome is one such example, and made up imaginary medical condition caused

by the windmills.

And today we're going to discuss six reasons why it doesn't exist.

That's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Six problems with wind turbine syndrome.

Today we're going to take a look into the high-powered world of wind generated electricity

and of one of its alleged side effects, wind turbine syndrome.

For the past few years, a growing number of activists have charged that proximity to a

wind turbine causes detrimental medical effects in humans.

It's called wind turbine syndrome, and depending on who you ask, it causes everything from

fatigue to cancer.

Is it possible that such a relatively simple and common machine could be sickening people?

For a long time, these giant modern windmills, usually clustered in wind farms, were known

only to be ugly and annoying, as well as visually distracting.

Other than being audible, mainly from the industrial roar of an air conditioning unit

attached to the larger ones, they are not known to have any other environmental effects.

I wanted to hear what they sound like, so I went out to some nearby, some really huge

three-bladed ones that are pretty typical.

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