Aficionados of zombie films will know that some ghouls just won’t stay dead. In 2013, the economist Paul Krugman came up with the concept ‘zombie ideas’ – propositions that have been refuted, and should be no more, but keep returning because they serve a political purpose, or appeal to people’s prejudices.
In the run up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I experienced some of the symptoms associated with Havana Syndrome myself
In March this year, US officials will have hoped that a well-known zombie idea, Havana Syndrome, had finally been killed off. Havana Syndrome is the name for a group of unexplained medical symptoms which have been reported by hundreds of US government officials and their families in locations around the world in the last few years. Sufferers describe unexplained dizziness, headaches and ringing ears. The first case was reported in Cuba in 2016. Many of those affected believe a foreign actor using an exotic weapon caused their injuries.
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