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Finger on the pulse?

The scientific consensus over Havana Syndrome has shifted. Previously some claimed that it was triggered by the sound of crickets or pesticides, or was of psychogenic origin (what would once have been called “mass hysteria”). Now it is now widely accepted to be the result of radiofrequency pulses. This is still a shift akin to biologists announcing that bigfoot is real after years of dismissing it as a myth.

The first cases were recorded in 2017, when US diplomatic staff in Cuba reported strange grating or clicking sounds which disappeared when they moved. These sounds were accompanied by

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