Another piece of evidence it was microwaves. It seems to have been GRU Unit 29155. Quite why the Russians feel the need to go around attacking everyone in weird underhand ways I don't know. I guess some grudge against US intelligence?
"...In 2024, a Norwegian researcher skeptical that pulsed-energy weapons could do damage to human brains built a device and tested it on himself. It didn’t go well...
...Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in 2024 tested it on himself. He suffered neurological symptoms similar to those of “Havana syndrome,” the unexplained malady that has struck hundreds of U.S. spies and diplomats around the world..."
IIUC the guy build a device that is harmful, but there is no proof that a similar device was used in any of the "Habana syndrome" cases in the wild.
Do we know that this isn’t placebo?
Some of the symptoms of people with Havana syndrome seem very un placebo like.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome#Signs_and_symp...
Another piece of evidence it was microwaves. It seems to have been GRU Unit 29155. Quite why the Russians feel the need to go around attacking everyone in weird underhand ways I don't know. I guess some grudge against US intelligence?
https://wapo.st/4kwZhEg
That's only showing me the first paragraph.
Archive.is shows the full article: https://archive.is/nzo7W
Sounds like the Descombulator...
"...In 2024, a Norwegian researcher skeptical that pulsed-energy weapons could do damage to human brains built a device and tested it on himself. It didn’t go well...
...Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in 2024 tested it on himself. He suffered neurological symptoms similar to those of “Havana syndrome,” the unexplained malady that has struck hundreds of U.S. spies and diplomats around the world..."
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