Current Events > Declassified State Dept dismisses microwave theory causing Havana Syndrome

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/danvergano/havana-syndrome-jason-crickets

Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were most likely caused by crickets not microwave weapons according to a declassified scientific review commissioned by the US State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The State Department report was written by the JASON advisory group, an elite scientific board that has reviewed US national security concerns since the Cold War. It was completed in November of 2018, two years after dozens of US diplomats in Cuba and their families reported hearing buzzing noises and then experiencing puzzling neurological injuries, including pain, vertigo, and difficulty concentrating.
Originally classified as secret, the report concluded that the sounds accompanying at least eight of the original 21 Havana syndrome incidents were most likely caused by insects. That same scientific review also judged it highly unlikely that microwaves or ultrasound beams now widely proposed by US government officials to explain the injuries were involved in the incidents. And though the report didnt definitively conclude what caused the injuries themselves, it found that psychogenic mass psychology effects may have played a role.
No plausible single source of energy (neither radio/microwaves nor sonic) can produce both the recorded audio/video signals and the reported medical effects, the JASON report concluded. We believe the recorded sounds are mechanical or biological in origin, rather than electronic. The most likely source is the Indies short-tailed cricket.
The reports findings fly in the face of a medical report commissioned by the State Department and published by a National Academies of Sciences panel last year, which found that microwaves were the most plausible cause of the symptoms. That panel was not provided with the JASON report as part of its assessment, the NAS told BuzzFeed News.
We are grateful to the JASON Group for their insight, which while coming to no firm conclusions, has assisted us in our ongoing investigation of these incidents, a State Department spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in an emailed statement. The spokesperson declined to answer questions about why the panels findings were never made public or provided to the NAS.

Lmao
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Interesting. The syndrome is popping up all over the world now.

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CIA is going to start waterboarding crickets
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I've been targeted with this weapon on several mornings even though the previous nights I was minding my own business drinking heavily.

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Someone set up one of these weapons in my garage the other day. I'm very lucky I wasn't seriously injured.
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Havana one too many beers with the boys
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this seems almost relevant, maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4J5VUwiAs

It's funny, because certain actors have been leaning on it as a casus belli and evidence that we must GO HARD on Red Cuba and/or China lol and it's purely psychosomatic.

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That can't be, the spooky evil scientists in third world Cuba have certainly obtained advanced Chinese weaponry to give American diplomats mild headaches and nausea! We should invade them to stop them!

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Weird!

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Weren't there users here saying that the microwave weapon was real?

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If you played the game CONTROL, they actually touch on this subject lol

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I would note that scientists were saying this two years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba-crickets.html

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Could this be an unclassified SCP?
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Weren't there users here saying that the microwave weapon was real?

Yes, very angrily too.
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I, too, head this theory like a couple years ago: people just convince themselves that they are being attacked. It is probably not a sound they are used to, so they simply convince themselves it's something bad.

(besides, I can't imagine someone shooting some ray gun at the building, through walls, without bystanders really noticing. You would think a microwave dish pointed directly at a building like that would be highly visible).