Vetting the info around wind turbines

This refers to the ignorance and stupidity demonstrated by some Clinton County citizens: My wife and I travel all over the United States throughout the year, and we’ve traveled to 94 foreign countries. We see wind turbines in nearly every state and many countries, and we often joke that there must be huge numbers of morons in those communities. This is because about six years ago, word was spread by unknown persons in our county that these wind turbines (modern wind mills generating clean energy) can cause mental retardation in adults and children who live in close proximity to them. Also, the fallacy was spread that a field of these turbines could cause massive bird kills, resulting in heaps of dead birds below each turbine.

Occasionally, I’ve mentioned these predictions during our travels in communities containing large numbers of wind turbines. The