I'd have been happy to claim that windmills cause gall stones or anything else if it would have worked to defeat their placement on Mt. Passadumkeag up near my place in Maine.
Hey they lied about it not marring the view and they lied about it not killing birds and they lied about utility rates not skyrocketing like they have so why can't I lie about why I oppose them?
Of course the media (read Bangor Daily News) would have happily ignored 99 reasoned arguments and concentrated on that objection as representative because that is what they do.
It's gone from this
to this