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I hate this article, yet there might be something real here.

On the cover, this article looks like pesudo-scientific hogwash and a marketing puff piece for some artist's album. It drones on and on.

But this morsel could be absolutely groundbreaking if true:

The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.

Is this actually real, or was this made up? Was it simply amplified blood flow, CSF, or some other biological and unrelated phenomena? Is anyone looking into this?

This is the absolutely wrong window dressing and treatment for this kind of news and investigation. This shouldn't be puffed up marketing, but should instead be in scientific news circles and in the hands of principal investigators.

I'm skeptical, but maybe there's a valid line of research here that could result in a treatment for lots of impacted people.

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