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Considering it’s side effects from pesticides that we sprayed in our own embassies, it’s “Havana” syndrome in the same sense that the “Spanish” flu epidemic that originated in Kansas was in any way “Spanish.”

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It’s hard to respond without access to specific data, but here’s and example of how one of the first reports in JAMA was based on shitty science :

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/bad-science-of-the-havana-embassy-sonic-attack

if you check a bunch of different categories and define impaired as below 40th percentile, then a bunch of people suddenly have a “syndrome”.

I cant find the link at the moment (so this could be made up) but there are other problems with methodology. If you ask a doctor “Does this look like brain damage?” without proper blinding, (mixing in normal scans as controls), there is a tendency to over-diagnose, especially if you tell them they are looking for ray gun damage beforehand.

Some more info here. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/did-microwaves-harm-us-employees-at-its-embassy-in-havana/

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They and their families should have medical coverage simply because everyone should, that part’s fucked up. But psychosomatic illness is real and one of a million explanations more plausible than “the Cubans invented a Nukor”

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anyone working a white collar job at a foreign embassy has healthcare coverage. also these idiots are most likely in the CIA. you can do trade analysis from anywhere, you don’t need to be at a foreign embassy.

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Dunk on her

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I wish my friends were this cool honestly

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