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“This noise was not produced by some kind of sonic weapon, however. It turned out to be crickets. Literal crickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, this did not put Havana syndrome panic to rest, even though subsequent analysis by medical experts and <\/em>U.S. intelligence suggests that the condition is not real. In 2022, the CIA concluded<\/a> that the symptoms described by various officials were not caused by “a sustained global campaign by a hostile power.” The FBI’s analysis<\/a> was that Havana syndrome is a “mass sociogenic illness,” which sounds pretty scary, but actually means that the symptoms are essentially caused by social contagion, under conditions of extreme stress, paranoia, and among members of an insular community. Writer Natalie Shure likened it to the “demonic fits” experienced by girls during the Salem witch trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It means that the perceived diagnosis spreads socially, almost like an infectious pathogen would, with symptoms either triggered, exacerbated or wrongly ascribed to a phony cause,” she wrote<\/a> in a November 2021 piece for Slow Boring<\/em>. “People experience various maladies all the time and the cause is not always clear.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be Skeptical of That 60 Minutes Report on Havana Syndrome<\/a><\/blockquote>