Wind turbines cause cancer

Question

This claim has been made in various interviews and social media posts, suggesting that the noise or vibrations from wind turbines can lead to serious health problems, including cancer. One viral post stated:
"The sound from windmills causes cancer. People don’t want to live near them for a reason."

Answer 1

Although many people have debated over whether or not wind turbines cause cancer, they do not. A article by National Library of Medicine shows how EMF, shadow flicker, low frequency noise and infrasound from wind turbines have no effect on human health besides annoyance by the noise. Although the annoyance from wind turbines can lead to self diagnosed health issues such as sleep disturbances and stress, other factors from the turbines can not cause cancer. Another article from Cancer Health also states that wind turbines do not cause cancer. This article also mentions how there is no correlation between wind turbines and heart attacks, strokes, birth defects, high blood pressure and diabetes. Similar to the article by National Library of Medicine, it mentions how the noice can lead to disturbance and annoyance. Cancer Health mentions how the use of wind turbines can indirectly lead to a decrease in cancer rates because they are replacing coal-fired electrical generating plants. Although there has been many people debating over this topic this claim can be proven false by many different scientific studies related to wind turbines and human health.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4063257/#abstract1

https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/wind-turbine-noise-cancer-myth

Answer 2

I think using BBC as your source is smart. It is always a good source that brings many articles to peoples attention. Ultimately the claim is false but the information found was interesting.

Answer 3

You claim is good because you describe where you got it from, but the source attached to that does not seam to be working, so I would maybe just double check that. You do a good job of citing, although I feel like you could go into more depth when talking about how wind turbines don't cause cancer, like maybe go more into detail about how people are affected by wind turbines from more sources. Especially because I am personally interested in this and would love to hear more.