Sierra Club Chickens on Wind Infrasound (deep-six commissioned study)

By Donald Deever -- October 17, 2019

“Please note: Desert Report editors have retracted ‘The Silent Menace’ articles from both the June and September issues; our forthcoming December issue will cover the reasons why.” When the retraction took place during the second week of September, they hadn’t found an official excuse yet that they were comfortable publishing as an explanation….

… the formerly controversial topic of potential infrasound hazards associated with industrial wind turbines had been demonstrated by enough prestigious studies to be harmful beyond any level of doubt. As an environmental tribunal in Ontario, Canada officially explained, the issue was no longer one that questioned the harm but had evolved into a question of the degree of harm that industrial wind turbine–generated infrasound causes.

One of Murphy’s Laws states, “No good deed goes unpunished.” Along those lines, after working without any compensation for months to uncover the most revealing, current scholarly studies, and thought-provoking news reports on the known health hazards associated with infrasound from industrial wind turbines, a two-part series of articles that was written at the Sierra Club’s request was suddenly retracted from one of their club’s magazines.

Moreover, it was announced that the reason would not be revealed until December. This was a shocking outcome, especially considering that the articles had been the idea of the magazine’s editor, who along with a recruited author had painstakingly scrutinized, double-checked, and triple-checked every one of the extensive sources for the two-part article, and had verified not only the legitimacy of the sources, but also authenticated the interpretation of those reports.

While the first part of the series – which delved into the potential health hazards of infrasound on wildlife, house pets, and farm animals – had been considered a completely acceptable report for months, one week after the second part of the series was published online – which focused on the potential human health hazards of wind turbine produced infrasound – both articles immediately became the target of a mysterious set of “editors” (plural) for a publication that had only an editor (singular) prior to the banning of that series.

Apparently, the compilation of too many eye-opening pieces of evidence of infrasound danger in too little word space may have created too much truth for comfort for some of the Sierra Club’s largest money donors, who had purchased their positions as foundation directors, all of whom profit greatly from the promotion of costly and hazardous so-called green energy schemes (see the last portion of this article on how billionaire directors use the Sierra Club as a lobbying front, blatantly exchanging green hype for greenbacks in a well-orchestrated and highly successful scheme to increase their vast corporate profits).

Therefore, not only was the article retracted, but a campaign to discredit the two-part report is also currently underway. As Sir Walter Raleigh once put it, “He who follows too closely on the heels of history is likely to get kicked in the teeth.” The following is an account of the unfolding treachery of the Sierra Club, as documented in the email conversations between the author and the editor of the Desert Report magazine, where the travesty occurred …

Accordingly, this past Thursday, September 19, I received an email from a reader of the Desert Report asking why my two-part article on infrasound has been retracted by the magazine. Since I had not been informed by the editor of the magazine about this issue, I looked up the link for the current September issue of the Desert Report, and sure enough, found that part 2 of that article had been grayed out, and that a large watermark had been pasted over the article stating that it had been “retracted by the editors.”

Immediately, I also checked the first installment in the series that had been published in the June edition of the Desert Report, and found that the article had also been retracted, plus there was the following comment at the top of both parts of the online articles, “Please note: Desert Report editors have retracted “The Silent Menace” articles from both the June and September issues; our forthcoming December issue will cover the reasons why.”

When the retraction took place during the second week of September, they hadn’t found an official excuse yet that they were comfortable publishing as an explanation, and as a later correspondence with the editor, Craig Deutsche, revealed they were grasping at straws to try to fabricate any false excuse – no matter how thinly veiled – that they could purport as a “reason.”

In essence, the article titled, “The Silent Menace: When it comes to wind turbine infrasound, what you can’t hear can hurt you,” appears to have been banned by powers higher up in the Sierra Club, not because there were any erroneous research elements or reporting errors to be found in it, but simply because it offered too much proof, including peer-reviewed journal publications, showing that the formerly controversial topic of potential infrasound hazards associated with industrial wind turbines had been demonstrated by enough prestigious studies to be harmful beyond any level of doubt. As an environmental tribunal in Ontario, Canada officially explained, the issue was no longer one that questioned the harm but had evolved into a question of the degree of harm that industrial wind turbine–generated infrasound causes.

Some of the interesting facts surrounding the banning of the article include the following:

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