Grading Adam Entous’ “Havana Syndrome” podcast.
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Unfortunately, D-
Here is why it’s not an F

After regurgitating events much elucidated elsewhere around the phenomenon, in Episode 5, Adam, mentions that he received multiple tips re Havana Syndrome.One of them was a tip that “it’s actually a secret government program”, which he dismissed without any explanation. Why didn’t you follow up on it, Adam? Did you simply ask your government contacts about it, and after they denied it, you ended your investigation? I don’t know what you call it, but it’s definitely not journalism.

Later, Adam interviews a former Air Force physicist Doug Bethon, who admits that the US spent a lot of time developing microwave weapons. Also, when it comes to military weapons, there is a lot that the general public doesn’t know about. Active Denial System is given as an example of such directed energy weapon system (DEWS). Also, the US government has been messing around with weapons that use high powered radio waves (microwaves are part of the radio spectrum).

“What if we told you that the Pentagon has a ray gun, and what if we told you that it can stop a person in its tracks without killing him or even injuring him. Well, it’s true. You can’t see it, you can’t hear it, but I can tell you firsthand, you feel it.”(60 Minutes, 2008). So we know that these kinds of movable directed energy weapons already exist, because the US has made them, and there might be classified work happening to further enhance these weapons. You can fine tune those waves to have it penetrate deeper and deeper into the body, and there are also various places in the body you can also affect. Doug is saying it’s possible Havana Syndrome is a result of a weapon US government already knows about, but haven’t publicly acknowledged; and in fact, there is some recent evidence to back that up

So let me sum it up for you: The US Government knows (albeit it’s classified) what causes Havana Syndrome, and yet it keeps this information from the victims of Havana Syndrome, and from the doctors, sending them on a wild goose chase, while physicians are working hard trying to figure out the diagnosis, and therapeutic paths to help the victims. Let’s play along with Adam and agree for a moment that victims of Havana Syndrome are limited to government employees. How do you feel about it, diplomats and spies, that your very government hid this important information from you and your doctors? Would you consider it treason? Would you consider it betrayal?

The information disclosed above is the only reason I didn’t grade this very well put together podcast an F.

This information changes everything, and yet the most obvious questions that should follow these revelations are not found anywhere. Instead, you get a snarky mention about Havana Syndrome being a government program. But why not? Anti-personnel directed energy brain-degrading neuroweapons need to be fine-tuned, and you can’t do these experiments on monkeys. You need real people. Thanks to President Obama, rules for human experimentation have been relaxed, at least for the Air Force. And I don’t doubt that “the goal justifies the means” thinking is alive and well in the top echelons of our glorious military.

So now we are at episode 8, where Adam lists his most plausible hypotheses for Havana Syndrome. The Russian hypothesis comes on top, even though throughout the podcast, he states repeatedly that this is a conjecture without actual evidence. His strongest argument is “Cui Bono”.

But wouldn't the CIA also benefit from maintaining the Russian Hypothesis? Intelligence Agencies need enemies, otherwise it’s hard to argue for the necessity of an ever-growing “black budget”. Plus, what an opportunity to use human experimental subjects, whose medical data would be so accessible and useful in fine-tuning directed energy weapon systems!

But no, Adam doesn’t ask this question, whatever his reasoning is. But I can tell you it has nothing to do with journalism, and everything to do with making nice with Intelligence Agencies.

Other questions that never crossed Adam’s mind:

How do these weapon systems locate the target? There were cases in Havana when only one person was targeted, but not his/her roommate.
Do victims of Havana Syndrome continue getting attacked on US Soil? There are reports that they do. That’s a super important question.
Why is Adam completely blind and deaf to domestic civilian cases, diagnosed by the same experts who diagnosed Cuban diplomats and spies?
Why were members of the US Intelligence Committee asked to keep Havana Syndrome confidential for 5 years?

I’ll stop here. I can keep going, but I also realize Adam will unlikely take my writing seriously. After all, I am just a civilian diagnosed with Havana Syndrome brain injury by Dr. Hoffer, who received that infamous call in February 2017:

“Hi, This is the Department of Defense, and we’ve got a problem.”