--- title: "Now That Trump Has Driven The Evil Woke From Science, Researchers Reveal the True Effects of Windmills on the Human Brain" description: "Windmills have a very prominent hater in the White House — and a new study suggests that President Donald Trump is spewing malarkey." date: "2025-03-05" modified: "2025-03-05" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/windmills-wokeness-study-donald-trump" categories: - "Brain" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "anti-woke" - "brain" - "donald trump" - "windmills" --- # Now That Trump Has Driven The Evil Woke From Science, Researchers Reveal the True Effects of Windmills on the Human Brain ![Windmills have a very prominent hater in the White House — and a new study suggests that President Donald Trump is spewing malarkey.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Windmills, [like wokeness](), have a very prominent hater in the White House — and a new study suggests that President Donald Trump is spewing malarkey on both fronts. In a [new study out of Poland](), researchers specializing in acoustics and neuroscience found no evidence that so-called "wind turbine syndrome" — a baseless conservative boogeyman [promoted by Trump]() and [fossil fuel-linked groups](), suggesting that sound from wind farms induces mental illness, cancer, or even death — is any more "stressful or bothersome than road traffic noise." Instead, as the Adam Mickiewicz University researchers found when reviewing related studies for their paper for the [journal *Humanities and Social Sciences Communication*](), this pseudoscientific "condition" appears to be the result of [social contagion]() spread by [misinformation campaigns](). As the multi-disciplinary team of scientists noted, even people who have "tendencies towards rumination or reduced capacity for reflection and ambiguity tolerance" — grouchy folks, basically — don't seem to have any actual cognitive response when exposed to windmill sounds in a lab. To get to these results, these researchers recruited 45 healthy university students, comprised of 30 women and 15 men, all between 18 and 25 years old — a sample population of "mature individuals" who were, as a [recent meta-analysis study]() has shown, in an age group that tends to be more sensitive to noise than their older counterparts. Without telling the participants the purpose of the study or what type of sounds they would be exposed to, the researchers played the group either windmill sounds, traffic noise, or silence. The group that had been exposed to windmill sounds were then asked what sound they had heard, and none were able to identify it as anything other than white noise. This study is far from the first to conclude that "wind turbine syndrome" phenomenon is not rooted in cognitive or acoustic science — and because it was conducted in Poland, the scientists behind it were able to say as much without worrying about losing their academic funding. In the United States under Trump's second regime, however, this sort of research would almost certainly not be funded at a public institution due to the president's sweeping anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) push that [aims to eliminate]() such "woke" science from this country. It seems obvious to most even-keeled observers that Trump and Elon Musk's "[anti-woke]()" campaign is meant to drive those who oppose their agenda [out of public life]() — but hey, at least Europe still has real science. **More on the anti-woke agenda:** [*Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()