US Government Investigators Still Believe Havana Syndrome is a Directed-Energy Attack (politico.com) 106
The U.S. government's investigation into Havana Syndrome "is turning up new evidence that the symptoms are the result of directed-energy attacks," reports Politico, citing five U.S. lawmakers and officials who've been briefed on the matter:
Behind closed doors, lawmakers are also growing increasingly confident that Russia or another hostile foreign government is behind the suspected attacks, based on regular briefings from administration officials — although there is still no smoking gun linking the incidents to Moscow....
The phenomenon is getting more high-level attention as government officials have continued to report incidents in countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America throughout the year. Most prominently, Vice President Kamala Harris' August trip from Singapore to Vietnam was delayed more than three hours when multiple U.S. personnel reported symptoms consistent with Havana Syndrome in Hanoi...
A Biden administration official emphasized that the investigation is ongoing and has not yet reached specific conclusions... While CIA Director William Burns and lawmakers briefed on the matter have publicly referred to the incidents as attacks, some officials remain skeptical of the prevailing theory, and some prominent neurologists have described that explanation as implausible. But members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who are receiving weekly updates from the intelligence community on the status of the investigation, said the latest information they've received has disproved the skeptics — and in public statements, those lawmakers are increasingly referring to the incidents as directed-energy attacks.
Politico quotes one Republican Senator as saying "There have been new additional attacks, which is very disturbing. It's being taken very seriously now due to the director of the CIA ... [who] has put very highly qualified people on it..."
The Senator also dismissed the theory that the illness was merely psychosomatic. "I don't know how you could argue that when brain imaging is showing a traumatic brain injury, somehow this is psychosomatic."
The phenomenon is getting more high-level attention as government officials have continued to report incidents in countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America throughout the year. Most prominently, Vice President Kamala Harris' August trip from Singapore to Vietnam was delayed more than three hours when multiple U.S. personnel reported symptoms consistent with Havana Syndrome in Hanoi...
A Biden administration official emphasized that the investigation is ongoing and has not yet reached specific conclusions... While CIA Director William Burns and lawmakers briefed on the matter have publicly referred to the incidents as attacks, some officials remain skeptical of the prevailing theory, and some prominent neurologists have described that explanation as implausible. But members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who are receiving weekly updates from the intelligence community on the status of the investigation, said the latest information they've received has disproved the skeptics — and in public statements, those lawmakers are increasingly referring to the incidents as directed-energy attacks.
Politico quotes one Republican Senator as saying "There have been new additional attacks, which is very disturbing. It's being taken very seriously now due to the director of the CIA ... [who] has put very highly qualified people on it..."
The Senator also dismissed the theory that the illness was merely psychosomatic. "I don't know how you could argue that when brain imaging is showing a traumatic brain injury, somehow this is psychosomatic."
when multiple U.S. personnel reported symptoms (Score:5, Insightful)
They read the memo the others didn't.
Also the local personnel, cooking-, serving-personnel, handymen etc never report any symptoms.
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They read the memo the others didn't.
Also the local personnel, cooking-, serving-personnel, handymen etc never report any symptoms.
Should be +5.
It beggars belief that if the cause was directed energy, that we would not know it, have not seen the energy, and not traced it to it's point of origin almost immediately.
This ain't rocket surgery.A public network of Software Defined Radios located the whereabouts of Cuban jamming signals earlier this year. https://spectrum.ieee.org/cuba... [ieee.org]
But if directed energy is being used..
It will be along the electromagnetic spectrum
As with all energy, it will be detectable
In order to have physical effects, it will have to be pretty intense.
And by placing some SDR's and doing RDA, it will be localized.
If it is directed energy, it will probably be along the microwave portion of the EM spectrum. Probably inside the building. Anything outside will be pretty obvious.
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Ummm, no.
There is a big difference in receiving or absorbing RF carrier waves vs. the modulating signal (AM, FM, PM, etc.) in that the spies are listening to. They are listening to decoded or demodulated (recovered) audio while doing their jobs which exposes them to audio frequency signals - and those are limited by the circuit that's driving the local speaker or headset the spy is listening to.
That's very different from directly receiving or absorbing the RF carrier wave energy, which is, if anything, the
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Yes, of course they are custom built, but the audio amps will be limited in level - they are not going to design a headphone amp that blows out their agent's eardrums. Period. They would refuse to use them after the first one went deaf screaming and bleeding from the ears.
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No, No, No. Again, too much volume in the spies earpieces would definitely, obviously damage their hearing in a very obvious way. None of the people had FUCKING EAR DAMAGE for the 4th time, now. They had BRAIN DAMAGE, completely different and NOT CAUSED BY LOUD AUDIO IN THEIR HEADSETS! Give it up, already. I design these things for a living, I know what I am talking about and trust me, you're barking up the wrong tree here.
Re:when multiple U.S. personnel reported symptoms (Score:5, Insightful)
They still call it Havana Syndrome because initially they wanted to pin it on Cuba. Then the Cubans were perfectly willing to help with the investigations, and nothing turned up but loud crickets. Now it is happening all over the world. Explain please how that works? The symptoms are all over the place, and several researches say it is more like well documented, culture-bound psychosomatic illnesses. The Havana Syndrome even made it into a new book on culture-bound psychosomatic illnesses called "The Sleeping Beauties".
https://www.amazon.com/Sleepin... [amazon.com]
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They still call it Havana Syndrome because initially they wanted to pin it on Cuba. Then the Cubans were perfectly willing to help with the investigations, and nothing turned up but loud crickets. Now it is happening all over the world. Explain please how that works?
I wonder how many were appointments of the last president? Seems some of his folks have some unusual ideas about their bodies.
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There are a lot of things that don't make sense for it to be an attack.
Somehow the equipment for this attack is being used in multiple countries, many of them with well developed border controls and intelligence services. The equipment needed to conduct this kind of attack would not be trivial or easily available locally.
Nobody has found any evidence of these attacks, no stray emissions, no equipment or abandoned staging areas. They appear to have no effect on computers and other technology, or on other org
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This is a manifestation of the new "cognitive warfare" doctrine being implemented by the National Security State. We've been hearing bits here and there about this over the last few years, and apparently, those in charge are pretty sure that enough people will fall for this stuff that it is worth pushing through the media. Only really paranoid and misguided people would think that they need to wage cognitive warfare against their own people.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/1... [thegrayzone.com]
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We have 2 ways to sell garbage theories about our adversaries:
- 10 dimensional chess: the rationale behind the supposed actions may seem nonsense but there is a very devious logic behind it which unfortunately is too hard to understand
- crazy autocrat decisions: yes this autocrat appears to be doing things which are entirely against his interests but that is because he's crazy and believes that by doing crazy things he asserts his dominance.
Both lines of arguments have the benefit that the crazier the claim
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Some of your speculation is incorrect, while other is questionable. The white house has been targeted. The current U.S. case count is up to 300, and, at least based on news reporting, appears to affect multiple staff in a location. This makes a great deal of sense, as it would cripple intelligence work in that geographical area. The top level decision makers won't have any Intel on which to make decisions, but they're not being attacked directly, so it's not that big of a deal.
As for not affecting other
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You either watch too much TV news, or you have an agenda. There is zero evidence that there is an attack by anyone against US personnel. There are "symptoms". But mysteriously, we get to hear nothing of substance about it. Only vague claims by State Dept. or other officials. Claims are not evidence. You, I notice, want to send me to the TV and other "news" sources that simply parrot what the State Dept. officials told them. That's called cognitive warfare, and it is directed against the American people to m
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Whatever is happening to these folks, a biological origin is far more likely than a technological one. Here's what I think:
Foreign service personnel (diplomats and spies) and their families take a slate of vaccines just before posting overseas. The vaccines protect against of slew of diseases that are very uncommon inside the U.S. so aren't administered to U.S. citizens at large.
Locally hired staff (within the country) aren't administered the vaccines, just foreign service folks the U.S. government posts th
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Maybe they take vaccines for Havana. Taking a vaccine to go to a posting in Vienna is highly unlikely. So while it looks a plausible theory in reality it's not.
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"Foreign service personnel (diplomats and spies) and their families take a slate of vaccines just before posting overseas. "
OMG, the antivaxxers have arrived.
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You don't have to be an anti-vaxxer to acknowledge that the Cutter Labs incident happened. You just have to have a brain.
Vaccines are generally good. Like most medicine. Shit happens and sometimes it happens to medicines believed safe. On rare occasion it isn't immediately caught.
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If it is "directed", it can be a laser like beam, aka a maser.
That would be extremely difficult to detect. As: you have to look directly into the emitter when it is operating. You could pick up reflections, though. But not find the origin easily.
But I guess if one would think long enough about it, he would find a way to detect them and also the origin. For a lasers you would e.g. use dust. Some tin foil flakes might help with masers.
Or simply cover all windows form the outside, then the only real source cou
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It's not that hard to make something that can put enough high frequency energy out to cause this damage.
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Yes, but it should be easily detectable? Or not?
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Thanks to modern technology, we live in an ambient microwave background radiation environment making detection much more difficult.
To get a handle on the power levels necessary to harm the brain, we need to understand thermal conduction in the brain. This study is very informative: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... [nih.gov]. It tells us that A 74mw laser pulsed at 50% duty 100Hz raises brain tissue ~0.025/s. That may not seem like much, but 8 degrees is all you need to start causing issues for brain tissue, s
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Come again?
> 74 mw is 74,000 times more power than your WiFi router (-30dBm)
A WiFi router is allowed +30 dBm, not -30. That's one full watt, though most WiFi devices aren't quite that powerful.
But if the Havana Syndrome were caused by microwaves, a spectrum analyzer -- a standard piece of test gear -- would be able to pick it up. These used to be big heavy devices but now you can buy hand-held microwave ones, professional quality.
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How's your Terrahertz detector coming along? Do you have a handy gamma ray meter in your toolbox?
This thing could be operating in spectrum (whatever that happens to be) that you just don't have a receiver for.
Also as for the cooks, handymen etc not having been affected - mabey the guys with the directional high powered EM brain scrambler decided they weren't high value targets and didn't point it at them?
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Also the local personnel, cooking-, serving-personnel, handymen etc never report any symptoms.
Why would they? Who cares about giving a cook a headache? You want to mangle the people working at the embassy, specifically those you suspect of being CIA agents undercover. Those are the ones you want to hurt. Force them out of the country because of an injury and you've disrupted your adversary's ability to conduct surveillance, recruit people, gather information, etc.
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"Also the local personnel, cooking-, serving-personnel, handymen etc never report any symptoms.
Why would they? Who cares about giving a cook a headache? "
Wow, you think they can aim for specific heads through the walls?
You're crazier than them.
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The USG wouldn't give the slightest fuck about a cook - unless they could be used in a propaganda narrative for the rubes. Like you.
Maybe you should GTFO of other countries, then.
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Yep, that was the cousin of a friend of me that lives in Florida
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Is that before or after this "someone" got a ride to Alpha Centauri from Santa Clause?
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At this point it's complete retarded bullshit, if it were directed energy they would have proved it a year ago. Set some fucking science up or shut the fuck up with this stupid retarded conspiracy theory already slashdot et al.
Perhaps it's not an attack, but spying. (Score:3)
Perhaps what we're seeing is not an attack, but a side effect of a spy deivce.
Remember the great seal bug [wikipedia.org]? It was a passive microphone-repeater that was "illuminated" by radio signals - modulating their reflection by a microphone diaphragm that adjusted the tuning of a resonant cavity connected to an antenna. That one ran at 330 mHz and several multiples and near-multiples of it. But there were rumors of a smaller one disguised as an olive-and-toothpick, for parking in a drink glass at a table, which wou
Shocking (Score:2)
>US Intelligence Agency believes the thing that's most likely to get budget and attention funneled to the US Intelligence Agency
I'm shocked
Energy (Score:1)
Also, what would the Russians gain from a magitek weapon that does mild damage to the health of American diplomats? (I'm not trying to downplay the suffering of anyone supposedly involved, it's just that when somebody ends up on the Russian government's blacklist, he tends to suffer more radical consequences.)
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Considering that the "mild damage" seems to be mostly neurological, you can't conceive of a use for a (so far) untraceable weapon to make your diplomatic and intelligence opponents dumber and less focused?
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Also, I don't think that any of America's foreign policy is shaped inside the walls of the Cuban embassy. The alleged authors of this supposed wapon are not hindering American plans against Russia, all they are doing is sending bureaucrats into sick leave. (Again, no disrespect meant for anyone affected.)
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Come on, this is typical do your damage to the alternative everywhere, you could. In the ways hardly graspable. Typical KGBist leader work.
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Crimea?
Eastern Ukraine?
Novichok frequents Britain?
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With regard to abroad murders by novichok, ricin and explosives: they show my point. When the Russian government want to harm somebody, they kill him, it's not like they give him headaches; and they do it mafia-style, even deep in NATO territory, even without plausible deniability ("our agents were there to look at the bell tower!"), because they *want*
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I don't get what you are willing to draw. Russia does invest into missiles and submarines, and has its share of them allright. Russian gun system was sneaked into Ukraine to shut down Malaysian airplane, then returned to base. Is that your Mr.Clean? Ukrainian border was denied all the time, since the conflict was established. I was closely watching in detail how that did happen - folks from Russia took major role in setting the split. Fallout or not, borders got to be regarded, not denied, period. Or, else,
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you can't conceive of a use for a (so far) untraceable weapon to make your political opponents dumber and less focused?
FTFY. One wonders if it hasn't been in use against US heads of state since 2017...
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As quonset stated here: https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... [slashdot.org] the biggest benefit is the trained and embedded spy gets "sick" and has to go home for treatment, so then they have to scramble to find a replacement, get him trained and up to speed, etc.
Definitely they are trying to put a kink in the opposition's spying operations, at the least. At the most, they are trying to kill the target diplomats/spies, albeit ineffectively.
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Spectrum analyzers don't cost that much. (Score:2)
I assume they have added microwave and ultrasonic detection to their embassy electronic suites by now.
If there were still attacks, they should have evidence ... assuming they aren't incompetent, which is a big assumption.
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Hmm... But what if the attack mechanism has some way to detect those selfsame detectors? Some kind of harmless passive mode that lets them know when it the harmful active mode won't be detected?
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Or just positioning at the points, optimized for misdetection.
These folks are psichodelic enough after their next container of vodka.
Don't think they switch to rum, when in Cuba.
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Your references were unclear, but I see that mine were, too. However, I had trouble being more specific because my "they" was referring to the attackers, who are not yet identified. Even worse and more unclear in that it isn't even certain that there are any attacks underway.
However, it seems that your use of "they" could be referring either to the attackers (if any) or the victims (if their malaise is actually related to an attack).
Maybe you care to clarify? Something about psychedelic or paranoid?
What I c
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If that's electronic device, you hardly would tell it from the smartphone, radio, or notebook. If that's antennae, it can disguise as a part of these too. Detectors are hard to tell therefore. I would rather think energy gun - quite brief and concentrated blast, could do intended harm. Or match with the spectrum of cosmic radiation, that is naturally present, but its intensity is intentionally artificially increased or just concentrated in spot to the harmful level.
Psychedelic, I see you spell it that way,
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Your style is too unclear for me to interpret. Or maybe you know too much?
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Yes, this could be of reasons. Another is - westerners are often ordered, overly perhaps, to the point of being predictable and boring. Do not care to act this way, and somehow was still blessed to get away with that. Finally, we are simply making some odd guesses here, that's all.
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Only if you make sure the targets never move from the location of the active detectors.
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then keep the detectors online 24x7
They already do, and have learned nothing.
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What if James O'Keefe stole a DeLorean and assassinated JFK?
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I assume they have added microwave and ultrasonic detection to their embassy electronic suites by now.
If there were still attacks, they should have evidence ... assuming they aren't incompetent, which is a big assumption.
The level of incompetence would have to be magnificent though. I don't know for sure, but it's hard to imagine an embassy without such things as SOP
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It's safe to assume that if there is such a weapon being used, it is using some breakthrough technology or something highly advanced. Think of a laser, but at the lower spectrum (microwave, for example). If your energy is that highly directed, then it would only be detected if your spectrum analyzer's antenna happened to be in the exact path of the beam. I believe these are called masers.
It could also involve constructive and deconstructive interference. Where two or more beams cross, the constructive inte
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Additionally people are talking about the embassy having the equipment to detect such directed energy weapons, but it's not like diplomatic staff spend most of their time in the embassy. The embassy building is just the building where they go to work. People could be targeted for such attacks whenever they're anywhere else and all the equipment in the world won't help if you're only around it for eight hours of the day.
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So, carry one of these [narda-sts.com] around with you. They are light, inexpensive and simple to use (Note: I'm not trying to sell them. I just use similar devices sometimes in my job when I need to work near a powerful radar).
Re: Spectrum analyzers don't cost that much. (Score:2)
It will scatter all over the place. If it's strong enough for biologic effect you can detect it easily anywhere in the embassy.
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PS. that's not really how constructive interference works anyway, the only way get localised effect from multiple beams which isn't just a variation of focusing is non-linear mixing. Non-linear mixing tends to require powerful beams due to non-efficiency.
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I agree with the basic observation that it can't be microwave radiation because it is so easy to detect. Unless of course the government don't want to detect it fo
how utterly interesting! (Score:2)
so more hearsay, no new actual evidence despite headlines, but somehow it's time to re-announce that the cia has a new director (see nearly identical articles from may/june) and that he's very, very concerned and very, very busy.
i think this stuff is called "placement" in journalism lingo ...
Functional disorders (Score:5, Interesting)
Vox has an excellent story on this topic in their 'Unexplainable' podcast series. One of the things I like about this series is that, as the name implies, they aren't trying to come up with a definitive answer, but explore the theories.
Having said that, they come down fairly strongly on a category of ailment called a 'functional disorder' - real, long-lasting injury to brain function (ie. the processing of sensory information) that is a result of a cognitive process. The belief that you have received a brain injury creates neural pathways that reinforce and manifest the symptoms that you may have for any other reason (other illness, psychogenic, etc). This isn't a theoretical thing - you can actually see the disordered brain processes in a functional MRI scan. It's well-explained in the podcast as something in-between an organic injury and a psychological condition.
We are horrendously judgmental about 'psychosomatic' illness, people seem to have a completely false idea that we are in control of our subconscious. The truth is that it's the other way round entirely. The subconscious is driving the bus, and controlling all the inputs to the bus driver.
https://megaphone.link/VMP4538... [megaphone.link]
US "investigators" believe a lot if is suits them (Score:2)
"Weapons of mass destruction". Need I say more?
But hey, I get how they always fear how they might stop being the world leaders in meddling with sovereign states and toppling democratically elected leaders to further the profits of the corporate oligarchy they are a stooge of.
This technology has been around for years (Score:3)
The fundamental process is to modulate a much higher frequency with a lower frequency signal and when the carrier wave goes through spontaneous down-conversion by interacting with matter (your eardrums or skull) then the lower frequencies injected into the signal become audible to the person standing in the beam. You merely need to tune the frequencies to penetrate the walls and have the lower modulation frequencies obnoxious and powerful enough to cause damage.
Here are a few examples:
https://www.holosonics.com/sou... [holosonics.com]
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/4... [thelivingmoon.com]
https://www.bibliotecapleyades... [bibliotecapleyades.net]
Simply add a huge high frequency amplifier and point the beam in the desired direction and you can really ruin somebodys day (or life).
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when the carrier wave goes through spontaneous down-conversion by interacting with matter (your eardrums or skull)
How can a wave undergo "spontaneous down-conversion by interacting with matter"?
Down-conversion happens when two oscillators with different frequencies interact. Using the standard trigonometric identities:
sin(a)+sin(b)=2*sin((a+b)/2)*cos((a-b)/2)
sin(a)*sin(b)=(cos(a-b)-cos(a+b))/2
you get frequency components at frequency (a-b). If frequencies a and b are close to each other, then a-b is a much smaller number than either of them, and you get down-conversion.
But when a wave "interacts with matter", there is just one wave - the matter itself does not supply a noticeable oscillation o
Re: This technology has been around for years (Score:2)
Here there are many harmonics superimposed into the same waveform and any particles of matter can act as a splitter where the two waves recombine on the other side in a variety of ways. This is all well established physics.
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The double slit experiment and BBO crystals are quantum effects. Nobody has suggested that Havana syndrome is a macroscopic quantum effect.
As for your articles, the first seems irrelevant and the latter two have the appearance of being crackpot.
Is it a side effect of microwave eavesdropping? (Score:3)
Remote microwave return signals have been used previously ( albeit with planted devices as transponders ) to listen in to conversations. How could microwaves be used to remotely listen to conversations? Similar to using lasers to remotely detect conversations from the vibrations in window glass.
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The CIA tells lies (Score:5, Insightful)
The CIA also assured everyone that Iraq had a nuclear programme & mobile chemical weapons factories (some of the aerial photos the CIA showed to the press were actually of military equipment that US allies had sold to Iraq). And during the cold war, they misled politicians about the actual & likely threat that the Soviet Union posed to the US & its allies. So, it's not as if the CIA doesn't have a long history of misleading the US' & its allies' populations.
I still think it's more likely that US embassy employees, & spies among them, are suffering from severe stress, exhaustion & awful working conditions. Symptoms of PTSD can also include traumatic brain injury, BTW. No magical, invisible, undetectable energy weapons required.
Let's wait this one out until they can come up with some convincing & transparent evidence. However, that isn't the CIA's forte.
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There's a very good book about the history of the CIA "Legacy of Ashes" in which the author claims that the CIA quite quickly realized that the current administration (regardless of which) only listened when you told them what they wanted to hear so that is what you focused on, so when Reagan wanted to paint the USSR as a massive threat the CIA started to be more permissive in what they counted as possible weapon systems from satellite images to increase the numbers.
Huge chance that this is just the nocebo
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Sure, I like historical fiction too. Othe
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Both those things contradict the narrative that the CIA just tells presidents what they want to hear.
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(Not even) a distinction without a difference. Your butthurt does not a straw man make.
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As you clearly faceplanted. There is no connection between "telling presidents what they want to hear" and...any point of time since the CIA's conception. You really think the CIA was pandering to Reagan, who was a red-baiting McCarthyite long before he sought any political office, rather than engaging in mutual goals? The entire purpose of the CIA (and FBI) is to crush the left anywhere it exists on the planet. They wag the dog, not the other way around. Even St. Bernard [venezuelatoday.net] sounds like a Bush neocon when spea
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No matter what you believe that is exactly what they did. They did estimates on the weapons capability of the USSR by analyzing satellite images and counting tanks, subs, military installations and so forth. Their own records show that they their analysts saw the decline in investments as the USSR became to dwindle economically but Reagan had already decided that the USSR was a growing threat and not that they where imploding so he rejected their reports and the CIA begun to do a more liberal count of thing
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It's the Japanese. Solution: Tin foil hats. (Score:2)
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Prohibitive Risk/Benefit ratio for Vietnam, imo (Score:2)
Unlike the accusations of Covid being a bio-weapon (Score:2)
So now ray guns exist (Score:2)
Whatever you do (Score:2)
If you can reach powers that do _anything_ noticable to a body, you are many orders of magnitude above what you can easily detect with very simple broadband detection equipment. It doesn't matter if you spread your signal over a larger area to make it look like noise or if it's just at a single frequency, a broadband detector will detect it.... and at those powers even your radio or computer speakers or dictaphone or virtually any other device.
This also isn't plausible from another perspective. Imagine ther
Psychosomatic Symptoms (Score:1)
It's important to note that psychosomatic symptoms can cause changes to the brain, it's just that the causality is reversed. Instead of some external effect impacting your brain, which impacts your wellbeing, it's an effect that originates in your mind (e.g. constant fear or stress) that then impacts yo