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Sufficiently intense sound waves can kill a human being.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that sufficiently intense sound waves can kill a human being?
Unclear. The retrieved sources show that intense sound exposure can damage human hearing and the middle ear and that sonic weapons injure people, but none of them establishes that sufficiently intense sound waves can kill a human being.
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Jurado, C., Grothe, B., & Drexl, M. (2025). Intense low-frequency sound transiently biases human sound lateralisation. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327525
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Mohammadi, H., Tubelli, A., Puria, S., & Cheng, J. T. (2026). A nonlinear time-domain finite-element model of the human middle ear subjected to intense sound waves. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.23.753568
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Injury of sonic weapons to human body: A narrative review - PMC Lock. (n.d.). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjtee.2024.10.009
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