Keith Kloor is
a freelance journalist whose stories have appeared in a range of publications, from Science to Smithsonian. Since 2004, he’s been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. You can find him on Twitter @KeithKloor.
Last month, a group of Massachusetts residents filed an official complaint
claiming that the wind turbine in their town is making them sick. According to the article in the Patriot Ledger, the residents “said they’ve lost sleep and suffered headaches, dizziness and nausea as a result of the turbine’s noise and shadow flicker [flashing caused by shadows from moving turbine blades]." A few weeks later, a story from Wisconsin highlighted
similar complaints of health problems associated with wind turbines there. Anecdotal claims like these are on the rise and not just in the United States. A recent story
in the UK's Daily Mail catalogs a litany of health ailments supposedly ...
