Havana syndrome: Report links mystery illness to Russian intelligence unit

bbc.co.uk

30 points·throwmemoney··16 comments

Interesting to see how this story is now being propagated throughout the media, accruing credibility along the way.

Prior to the 60 minutes documentary, the latest on this story was that in March 2023, 7 US intelligence agencies reported that "available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents" and that a foreign adversary's involvement was "very unlikely"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

Hard to guess if that means the reporting is based on propaganda to make Russia look bad vs. US agencies not wanting to admit to the world that Russia has a weapon they can't yet protect against. Both seem equally plausible to me.

For this to be “equally plausible” you’d first have to offer a plausible hypothesis of how such a weapon could operate. Last time this came up nothing even remotely plausible was offered.

I'm no expert on weaponry but isn't there a long history of countries inventing weapons that other countries assumed weren't possible until they saw their use?

Didnt we just have a thread full of people laughing at how made up this disease was? Wasn’t there some report about that previously, just maybe a month ago? And this “report” seems to be by 3 news organizations.

[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39889517

What's today's date again?

Weird how strongly some HN commenters feel that this story must be bullshit.

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