Psychologist continues to push cricket theory to explain sonic attacks in Cuba

From our Bureau of Diehard Propaganda Agents 

Here we go again. . .

Robert Bartholomew, Ph.D.– an American “expert” on mass psychosis who teaches history and social studies at Botany Downs Secondary College (high school) in Auckland, New Zealand — has written a column for Psychology Today in which he resurrects the cricket theory and denies that any American or Canadian diplomats have suffered injuries in Castrogonia.

Bartholomew, an attention-seeking diehard shill for the Castro regime, has been featured here at Babalu previously.

Once again, this might seem convincing proof that leftism is in fact a primitive religion whose adherents prefer illogical beliefs and cling to them despite clear evidence of their falsehood.

And, on the surface, it may look like Psychology Today has run out of psychobabble to print and is now turning to primitive religiobabble.

But if one digs below the surface, it is not difficult to find that Dr. Bartholomew has been cooperating with a Castro regime apparatchik ever since the story of the attacks surfaced.

His partner in crime is Dionisio Zaldivar Perez, a “psychologist” at the University of Havana.

Dionisio Zaldivar Perez

Prior to the publication of Bartholomew’s Psychology Today column, he and Zaldivar Perez had already co-authored articles denying the reality of the attacks in The International Journal of Social Psychiatry 64(5):413-416 and The Swiss Medical Weekly, February 23: 1-2;

In addition, Bartholomew has been pushing the “mass psychogenic illness” theory in various other journals, such as The Journal of the American Medical Association 320(6): 602 (August 14), and The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 110(12): 474-475 (December).

So, three cheers for the efficiency of the Castro Ministry of Truth and its acolytes at the University of Havana and Botany Downs Secondary College in New Zealand !

After one of the early attacks, an Embassy staffer involved had the presence of mind to record the mysterious sound that corresponded with their feeling unwell.  The recording was then played back for new staff who were being stationed in Havana.  The recording helped them to identify new attacks.  A Cuban government scientist initially linked the sounds to the Jamaican Field Cricket, a.k.a. Gryllus assimilis. 

However, a more recent analysis by Alexander Stubbs of the University of California at Berkeley has turned the spotlight on another suspect:  Anurogryllus celerinictus or the Indies Short-tailed Cricket.  Several other recordings by Embassy staff were played for a specialist in Caribbean entomology.  His No. 1 suspect:  Cuban cicadas.
When searching for the answers to seemingly mysterious events, stick to the mundane, not the exotic; stick to the facts, and above all, stick to science, not science fiction.   

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