Can Wind Turbines make people ill?

[Heather]

I've heard numerous stories saying that wind turbines can make people ill, and also I'm sure i've read things that people are trying to equate illnesses suffered within the area they are living in with new wind farms - I'm thinking its purely co-incidence but can anyone help?

[GemmaRowlands]

What types of stories have you heard? Do you have a link to any of them so that we would be able to see? Or maybe the links to a research paper?

I have heard some people say that it can interrupt sleep patterns - but as far as I'm aware, this is very much still a theory, and there is absolutely nothing solid to suggest that this is the case for certain.

I do think that it's important that there is more research done about this, though, because if there are more and more wind farms being produced it is vital that people understand more about what they are capable of and what, if anything, they might cause.

[Mark Haslam]

Newspapers only print the stories they want people to read, that's the problem. It sounds great, something the government has been pushing forward has made people ill - how dramatic and wonderful. But in reality there is currently very little research about it, and next to no reason to believe that it might truly be the case.

[Luke Bainbridge]

I would be able to understand how they may affect sleep like Gemma said, but at the same time I would have thought that you would have to be seriously close to them in order for that to be the case. I don't think it can happen if you're miles away from them. Although having said that, who knows what the future is going to bring, I am sure that many things we assumed were safe will be shown to be harmful in years to come.

[yasmin elmalky]

Wind energy enjoys considerable public support, but wind energy detractors have publicized their concerns that the sounds emitted from wind turbines cause adverse health effects.
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