‘This is an important and timely book. Wind power is an essential element of our response to climate change. This book shows that the spread of the technology has been slowed by misinformation, misunderstanding and barefaced lies. Everyone concerned about the need to slow climate change should read this book and use it to counter the dishonest campaign against renewable energy.’
 

—Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO FTSE, president of the Australian Conservation Foundation 2004–14

 

‘The book is a fantastic achievement. Its great strength is in pulling together multiple strands of work on the same issue, providing a robust, in-depth and fascinating account of how “wind turbine syndrome” has come into existence and, hopefully, how it can fade into the background.’
 

—Dr James Rubin, Psychological Medicine, Kings College London

 

‘Simon Chapman has become a touchstone for everything the extreme right hates: arguments grounded in fact, a passion for a healthier planet, and sometimes just a dose of plain common sense. His writing is erudition and conviction combined. Read on!’
 

—The Hon. Peter Garrett AM, lead singer of Midnight Oil and former federal minister for the environment

 

‘Are windfarms a threat to human health? Public health expert Simon Chapman and health psychology PhD Fiona Crichton blow away the bad science, rumours and misinformation in an illuminating, fascinating and entertaining look at the makings of a health scare. “Tilting at windmills” is an analogy for the activities of those who passionately believe that windfarms are a threat to human health. This book shows that these fears are not backed by persuasive evidence, and that not all the critics have the grace and dignity of the original windmill-tilter, Don Quixote.’

—Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry, IOPPN, KCL, President Royal Society of Medicine, Past President Royal College of Psychiatrists

 

‘Our policies on issues such as climate change and health should be based on science, not emotion, distortion and invention. This lively and thorough account of the wind turbines story in Australia should be required reading for all those interested not only in climate change, but also the way public policy can and should be shaped.’
 

—Professor Fiona Stanley AC FAA FASSA, Australian of the Year 2003

 

‘Simon Chapman has a finely tuned bullshit detector and a thick hide. He was the first public health expert to see confected windfarm health reports for what they were – a powerful and almost plausible tool for scuttling wind development. With his tireless research, keen eye for “killer facts” and media savvy, nobody has done more than Simon Chapman, globally, to exile the windfarm health scare back to the fringes from which it emerged.’
 

—Simon Holmes à Court, community renewable energy pioneer and Senior Advisor to the Energy Transition Hub at the University of Melbourne