Levka"Selling Fear and Half-Truths: The Latest 60 Minutes ‘Exposé’ on Havana Syndrome
For nearly a decade, a mysterious ailment known as 'Havana Syndrome' has been portrayed as proof that American diplomats and intelligence officers have been attacked by a foreign adversary using a secret energy weapon. Few outlets have promoted this narrative more forcefully than the CBS television News Magazine 60 Minutes, which has presented the saga as a chilling geopolitical mystery. Yet after years of investigation, the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that such attacks are 'highly unlikely.' So how did one of America’s most respected news programs become so invested in a story that the evidence increasingly contradicts? The answer tells us less about the shadowy world of spycraft and secret weapons, and more about the psychology of belief, the power of social contagion, and the media’s enduring fascination with invisible enemies."
https://www.skeptic.com/article/selling-fear-half-truths-latest-60-minutes-expose-havana-syndrome/
Selling Fear and Half-Truths: The Latest 60 Minutes ‘Exposé’ on Havana Syndrome
60 Minutes has aired four Havana Syndrome exposés—but two intelligence assessments say attacks are “highly unlikely.” Robert Bartholomew, a scholar of mass delusion, reveals the omissions, conflicts of interest, and psychology of belief driving one of TV journalism’s most credulous narratives.