The 3 Best Explanations for the Havana Syndrome

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The Havana Syndrome was first reported in 2016, but by now more than two dozen cases have been reported all over the world, not only in Cuba but also in Russia, India, Austria and the USA. In this video, I go through the 3 most plausible explanations that have been put forward: mass hysteria, microwaves, and ultrasound, and discuss what speaks for and against them.

The BBC article about the recent case in India which I mention in the intro is here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58632145

The paper with the brain scan results is here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6652163/

The recent article in the NYT that I mention is here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/opinion/havana-syndrome-disorder.html

The article in the Guardian about the size of sonic weapons is here:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/02/microwave-weapons-havana-syndrome-experts

The book by James Lin is here:

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030645434

And his recent paper here:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9366412

The paper which compared the AP recording to cricket sounds is here:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/510834v1.full.pdf

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0:00 Intro
2:18 Mass Hysteria
6:08 Microwaves
10:32 Ultrasound
11:41 So, well
13:12 Sponsor Message

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