A critical analysis of: Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel
Acoustical Society of America|Paul Schomer and Pranav Pamidighantam|December 2, 2013
The "Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel" study says: "The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
(MassDEP) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) convened a panel of independent experts to identify any
documented or potential health impacts of risks that may be associated with exposure to wind turbines, and, specifically, to facilitate discussion of wind
turbines and public health based on scientific findings." It continues, saying: "The scope of the Panel's effort was focused on health impacts of wind
turbines per se." The Massachusetts study treats health affects broadly in accordance with WHO and includes direct health effects, annoyance, and sleep
disruption. In many ways the Massachusetts study is a critique of the literature relating to wind farm acoustic emissions and health effects. This paper is a
critique of the critics. In particular, this critique examines some of the physical acoustic findings and some of the social survey findings. The Massachusetts
study reveals itself to have problems similar to those that it criticizes in other reports.
