00:03Hello and welcome to the Cube! Christmas is still far, the reindeer are already back in the news.
00:11Today's fake story takes us to Norway, where a new conspiracy theory claims that wind turbines
00:17are causing the formed reindeer to be born. This conspiracy feeds into a bigger theory claiming
00:23that the turbines cause health problems related to their infrasound and low-frequency noise,
00:30for example tinnitus, ear pain and vertigo, but also back pain and accelerated aging.
00:36However, a large body of scientific work says that there is not enough evidence linking living close
00:43to properly sighted wind turbines to adverse health effects. Other hypotheses suggest that stress
00:50could be connected to a general sense of concern about the turbines, or even to unpleasant visual
00:56cues, rather than their noise. In any case, there are no scientific reports of any deformed reindeer
01:04being born in Norway because of the turbines. It is true, however, that Norway ruled that the
01:11construction of dozens of wind turbines infringed the herding rights of the local Sami community.
01:17However, later the summits reached an agreement with the wind farm's owners and the Norwegian state,
01:23which will allow the turbines to remain operational, in exchange for new grazing land,
01:29financial compensation and the right to veto any future extensions of the wind farm's land concession.
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