The Scientists’ Slam Microwave Theory “Havana Syndrome”

The microwave attack is a “simple” explanation for the spread of the horrific atrocities that many US ambassadors to Cuba recorded three years ago, a study that has long been expected over the weekend.

But the scientists who agreed on Report of the National Academies of Science, Sent by the US State department, says the findings of the microwave attack are inconclusive. External experts on microwaves with the mysterious “Havana syndrome”, also said it was impossible. One scientist called it “a science fiction novel.”

“In many ways, what we are saying is that the US government should do this deliberately and seriously,” said party chairman David Relman, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford. “The important thing is the government’s efforts to not only learn what happened but also anticipate the future.”

The State Department appreciated the release, saying to BuzzFeed News that the report “could add to the analysis and evaluation that would enable us to see what happened.”

The report adds, “For a number of reasons, the report states that ‘signaling’ is in line with the frequency of radio broadcasts. We recognize that ‘signals’ are technological advances in medicine and science that allow potential but do not justify it.”

About 35 spies also reported shocking injuries since the end of 2016, which disrupted their US-Cuban diplomatic relations over Trump’s administration.

In 2017, the State Department first announced the concerns of staff at the US Embassy in Havana who reported that they had heard loud noises and experienced severe headaches, headaches, and headaches. Previous reports cited sonic weapons as the cause, cause of deafness, damage to the inner ear, and a seizure such as a brain injury – all of which were removed by a NAS report – which Rex Tillerson, former head of State department, called “disease”On ambassadors and their families.

Other theories have been spread that mysterious diseases have been introduced the sound of cricket causing a major disturbance or The Russian spies somehow send a delegation. In 2019, the State Department requested the NAS to re-evaluate the disease with the available resources and confidently to advise on how to collect medical information in future criminal cases. The teams met three times last year, hearing from medical teams that assisted or evaluated other affected patients; reviewed CDC reports from the National Institutes of Health and heard evidence from eight patients.

But the group was frustrated by the lack of information about the people involved, the report said, due to security and confidential medical laws. Most of the medical experiments provided were not enough, because they were collected to help patients instead of investigating the emergence of injuries.

“We had no information about the people, including the first victims, the later victims, what their relationships were,” said Jeffrey Staab, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic. In light of this limit, the group’s focus, what was said among the ambassadors in Havana – loud noises, push-ups, tremors, earaches, and headaches – is very different and helpful in describing it. The group also included recent reports of similar injuries to Canadian tourists and US embassies in China.

“There are real holes in that,” Staab said. “Even if we had all the security to see anything about everyone, it would still be wise.”

The same threshold limits what scientists can say is a clear explanation for the casualties, members of the group told BuzzFeed News. The belief that mysterious diseases caused by infectious diseases, such as Zika virus, was seen as “unpredictable” – and a recent explanation that an explosion caused by a deadly poison is proven “impossible,” scientists said.

Scientists have also considered the third hypothesis that most dementia causes it. For this reason, one group of danger signs followed by a variety of illnesses – particularly persistent dizziness, difficulty thinking, insomnia, and headaches – indicate a back injury that is spread by infectious diseases. However, without the knowledge of the people and their associates to identify the social networking sites, Staab said, the group did not find a clear answer. “The hardest part is figuring out the ideals, the culture,” Relman said.

This left the final impression that the disease was caused by “frequent electrical stimulation.” Based on a real-life experience called “the Frey effect,” in which microwaves that twist in the human ear can make a sound that only the hearers can hear, the “Frey-like” effects were “clear” on the hypotheses considered. .

“It’s a little strange. But first, something important and real happened to these people,” said Relman. “We looked at possible options and found that one was more representative than the other and was fully consistent with some of the clinical findings.”

The report confirmed that attacks on microwaves could lead to dementia and later dizziness, along with frustration caused by their injuries. Chronic injuries often have headaches that should not be dismissed as actual symptoms, Staab said.

Among the findings of the report were responses to the State department on how to investigate future clusters, with experts from many areas instead of the only doctors who know brain damage. “Whatever happens, we will not allow this to happen,” Staab said.

However, experts on both microwaves and group psychology strongly disagreed with the report’s findings.

“The report does not confirm why microwaves should be involved,” said Kenneth Foster, a first biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who first described the Frey incident. in 1974. The result requires very strong teams to make unintelligible words, he said, and is not known to be harmful. “Maybe someone went through a lot of trouble going to a big microwave truck to make their co-workers feel like ‘clicking,’ but there are easier ways to harass people than that,” he said.

“This is not science but science fiction,” said UCLA’s Robert Baloh, coauthor Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness is a True Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria. Reports alone, not considered by the group, give a picture of diseases that spread through patients in ways that appear to be the eruption of psychology of the past, Baloh said. “There is a lot of misunderstanding. This is true. People have been seriously injured, even among traditional healers,” he said.

Neuroscientist Mitchell Joseph Valdés Sosa of the Cuban Neuroscience Center said the report was part of a solution as it dispelled misconceptions about sonic weapons and brain damage. These findings are similar to 2018 Cuban Academy of Sciences Report, led by Sosa, who said the initial trauma among a minority is likely to spread with more psychology to more people across the media. “We do not agree with the frequency,” Sosa said, “but this is the first time that US experts have agreed that the causes of dementia may be significant.”

He also said that Cuban hotels and microwaves are said to be located in crowded, open areas, which makes it difficult for the small group to be affected or the threats to be identified.

The Cuban Academy of Science reached out to the group to offer its closest research near where people were injured, Sosa added. But he was told that the agreement did not allow for talks with Cuba.

None of the members appear to have extensive knowledge of microwaves, which could explain their desire to see what could happen in Frey, said Old Dominion University bioengineer Andrei Pakhomov, who said he was skeptical of 40 years of research in the area. “There are a lot of reports about the birth of radio frequency radio frequency, but there is no reliable evidence.”

Although he said suspiciously Russian spies are somehow building on Soviet research to develop such a weapon, Pakhomov, a Russian immigrant, says the law is now over in Russia.

“I know all the people there who could have done anything in this area,” he said. “Both are retired or scientists.”