Washington thinks it’s “very unlikely” (finally!) that a mysterious disease called “Havana Syndrome” could be caused by a hostile foreign power.

Mysterious symptoms related to brain damage were first reported in Cuba in 2016, but only to US and Canadian embassies.

Around 40 Canadian diplomats and their families stationed in Havana felt it. No other person, neither diplomats from other countries nor Cuban citizens, has reported such health problems.

Symptoms include headaches, memory loss, dizziness, nausea, trouble sleeping, mood swings, and nosebleeds.

Since then, American diplomats, soldiers, and secret agents around the world have experienced such symptoms, which are attributed to mysterious Cuban, Russian, or Chinese attacks. No more Canadians.

Last week, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence found that seven intelligence agencies, after reviewing more than 1,500 “abnormal health incidents” in more than 90 countries, concluded it was not an act by hostile powers. No further explanation was given.

The Syndrome in Federal Court in Ottawa

In Canada, a former Supreme Court Justice has been appointed to arbitrate lawsuits against the federal government by nine family members of Canadian diplomats who have suffered from these strange phenomena in Cuba.

At least 18 plaintiffs, assigned to the Canadian Embassy in Havana, are suing Ottawa in federal court for millions of dollars in damages. In July 2022, Global Affairs Canada said 15 Canadians had been confirmed to have been diagnosed with “acquired brain injury.”

The CIA has never believed in using microwaves or any other form of directed energy to carry out such attacks. Creating a sonic beam powerful enough to execute them would require a huge vehicle topped with a giant sonic cannon. Placed near the American Embassy, ​​the whole neighborhood would have witnessed the attacks.

The Suspects: Stress and the “Nocebo Effect”

The CIA had previously concluded that these symptoms could be due to a pre-existing medical condition, environmental factors, and stress. The FBI traced her back to a stress-related psychosomatic illness.

The “evils” described are in fact classic manifestations of psychosomatic effects: physical disorders caused or aggravated by psychological factors.

In order not to humiliate and embarrass victims, the United States and Canada have never mentioned the possibility that these ailments are caused by the “nocebo effect,” which improves a person’s health not through the power of suggestion, but instead deteriorated. The opposite of the placebo effect.

I have already argued in February 2019 and then in 2022 that the “nocebo effect” is the most rational and obvious explanation for this strange phenomenon, given the extraordinary resources of scientific and technical investigations that have been unsuccessfully employed to determine the origin of these ailments to discover.

Or it’s an alien attack, the same ones that bother Americans – and only Americans – with “unidentified aerial phenomena.”