Funding Continues for Illness Scientists Dismiss - washingtonpost.com
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Gulf Syndrome Has Believers in Congress
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 3, 2006; Page A01
Fifteen years after the end of the 1991 war with Iraq, a Texas researcher is in line to get as much as $75 million in federal funding to press his studies of 'Gulf War syndrome,' even though most other scientists long ago discounted his theories.
Epidemiologist Robert W. Haley has been trying for 10 years to prove that thousands of Persian Gulf War troops were poisoned by a combination of nerve gas, pesticides, insect repellents and a nerve-gas antidote. With the help of $16 million in past funding obtained by his backers in Congress and the Pentagon, Haley has argued that his 'toxicity hypothesis' is the best explanation for the constellation of physical complaints that many veterans reported after returning from the Gulf."
posted by grahamhgreen @ 12/03/2006 06:09:00 AM
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Make no mistake about this, when "your war" goes out of fashion, the VA is no longer your friend. The VA attends to those who are coming home from the war "a la mode" because it make good press, but those who continue to suffer from past wars get unceremoniously dumped. They screwed my WWII vet, fully disabled father on his death bed, when my mother and he needed them the most....and they will do it again and again...remember Agent Orange. No worries mate, your congenitally disfigured children had nothing to do with the fact that we sprayed you with toxic herbicides in the Vietnam War.....good luck! The VA funding has been a political football for at least 60 years, I'm a witness.
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