Waubra Foundation
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The Waubra Foundation was an Australian lobby that opposed wind farms and promoted the controversial wind turbine syndrome.[1] The foundation was founded by Peter Mitchell, a director of several oil and gas companies.[1] The foundation described itself as an advocacy group for properly conducted, multidisciplinary research into alleged health problems reported by people living in the vicinity of wind turbines and other industrial uses. The foundation was named after the town of Waubra, Victoria, Australia, but is not linked to it in any other way. The town is home to the 128 turbines at Waubra Wind Farm.
Claims made by the Waubra Foundation relating to wind turbine syndrome and wind farm syndrome are considered pseudoscientific and are not recognised as actual diseases by any international disease classification system, nor do they appear in any title or abstract in the United States National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Wind turbine syndrome has been characterized as pseudoscience. Since 2003, 25 reviews have been published of the scientific literature on wind turbines and health. These studies have consistently found no reason to believe that wind turbines are harmful to health.[2]