{"id":1745,"date":"2009-02-10T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2012-01-25T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T10:29:10","slug":"new-scientific-study-supports-dr-pierponts-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/new-scientific-study-supports-dr-pierponts-research\/","title":{"rendered":"New study supports Pierpont&#039;s research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/todd-et-al-447x432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1746\" title=\"Todd et al.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/todd-et-al-447x432.jpg\" alt=\"Todd et al.\" width=\"447\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/todd-et-al-447x432.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/todd-et-al-447x432-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In an article titled &#8220;Tuning and sensitivity of the human vestibular system to low-frequency vibration,&#8221;<sup>1<\/sup> three British scientists have demonstrated that the inner ear is &#8220;extremely sensitive&#8221; to extremely low levels of low frequency noise, indeed &#8220;approaching the seismic sensitivity of the frog ear.&#8221;\u00a0 They go on to wonder about the &#8220;behavioral consequences&#8221; of such sensitivity&#8212;a degree of sensitivity, they make clear, that is found even in normal human subjects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is precisely what Nina Pierpont has been talking about.\u00a0 This new research offers substantial support for her claim that <em>a perturbed vestibular apparatus<\/em> is one of the keys to explaining Wind Turbine Syndrome.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #ebedda;\"><p>&#8220;Mechanoreceptive hair-cells of the vertebrate inner ear have a remarkable sensitivity to displacement, whether excited by <em>sound, whole-body acceleration or substrate-borne vibration<\/em>&#8230;.In this article we demonstrate for the first time that the human vestibular system [inner ear] is\u00a0&#8230; extremely sensitive to low-frequency and infrasound vibrations.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Human [inner ear] receptor sensitivity is probably &#8230; approaching the seismic sensitivity of the frog ear&#8221; (emphasis added, Abstract).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The very low [noise] thresholds we found are remarkable as they suggest that humans possess a frog- or fish-like sensory mechanism which appears to exceed the cochlea for detection of substrate-borne low-frequency vibration and which until now has not been properly recognised&#8230;. A fundamental question is also raised as to the possible behavioral consequences &#8230; such a mechanism may have&#8221; (p. 41).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Abstract\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/todd-et-al-human-vestibular-system-low-frequency-vibration-2008-p-1.pdf\">Click here <\/a>for the full abstract.\u00a0 (Unfortunately, copyright laws prevent us from posting the entire report.)<\/p>\n<p><sup>1 <\/sup>Neil P. McAngus Todd, Sally M. Rosengren, James G. Colebatch, &#8220;Tuning and sensitivity of the human vestibular system to low-frequency vibration,&#8221; <em>Neuroscience Letters<\/em> 444 (2008):36-41.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}