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FBaggins

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6. It isn't a false equivalency

Reply to kristopher (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 11:36 AM

Mar 2013

When someone thousands of miles away gets a bloody nose and worries that it's radiation sickness - it's clearly the "nocebo" effect.

And just as with wind power, there are charlatans profiting from that effect.

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Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick? [View all] FBaggins Mar 2013 OP

Also, driving a Prius saps your masculinity. NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #1

Would have been a good OP without the final false equivalency... kristopher Mar 2013 #2

It isn't a false equivalency FBaggins Mar 2013 #6

Yes it is a false correlation kristopher Mar 2013 #15

Popular delusions pscot Mar 2013 #3

No one I know has become sick newfie11 Mar 2013 #4

Message auto-removed TooManyPeople Mar 2013 #13

People live next to freeways, airports, train tracks. wtmusic Mar 2013 #5

There are no transmission lines from the turbines newfie11 Mar 2013 #7

The lines are buried. joshcryer Mar 2013 #8

Thanks newfie11 Mar 2013 #10

Goes to a substation with good peaking abilities. joshcryer Mar 2013 #11

? wtmusic Mar 2013 #16

I mentioned that in post #11. joshcryer Mar 2013 #17

Message auto-removed TooManyPeople Mar 2013 #14

Ha, nice switch-a-roo. joshcryer Mar 2013 #9

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