Bill GreenGulf War Syndrome caused by stress not chemicals. Results are the same.
September 13th 2008 00:13
It's official. There is such a thing as Gulf War syndrome, except it's not caused by a chemical cocktail of pesticides and tablets to protect combatant from nerve gas. It's caused by war.
Not that Australian scientists are are capable of such lateral thinking. They say the Gulf War syndrome doesn't exist because the test on nearly 2,000 sufferers don't add up to the condition of chronic fatigue, headaches, dizziness, memory problems, joint pains and children with birth defects. The scientists at the Monash University's Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, just claim the conditions are caused by stress - from war. Or let's say, killing people and being frightened that you'll be killed in turn.
Isn't the result the same guys (if there were any women on the team they'd spot the bad logic right away)? If there is such a thing as the stressed conditions causing all those conditions, why do you have to stop calling it the Gulf War Syndrome? Wouldn't the name be even more apt?
The solution is of course - to prevent governments being vulnerable to paying compensation to returning soldiers - to cease mounting wars. Hey, No more Gulf War Syndrome. Or any other syndrome caused by the game of kill or be killed.
Not that Australian scientists are are capable of such lateral thinking. They say the Gulf War syndrome doesn't exist because the test on nearly 2,000 sufferers don't add up to the condition of chronic fatigue, headaches, dizziness, memory problems, joint pains and children with birth defects. The scientists at the Monash University's Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, just claim the conditions are caused by stress - from war. Or let's say, killing people and being frightened that you'll be killed in turn.
Isn't the result the same guys (if there were any women on the team they'd spot the bad logic right away)? If there is such a thing as the stressed conditions causing all those conditions, why do you have to stop calling it the Gulf War Syndrome? Wouldn't the name be even more apt?
The solution is of course - to prevent governments being vulnerable to paying compensation to returning soldiers - to cease mounting wars. Hey, No more Gulf War Syndrome. Or any other syndrome caused by the game of kill or be killed.
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Bill, as you would know better than most, that substance was denied as having any deleterious effects, well after the Vietnam debacle, then Oz kept up the bullshit, even after the USA admitted it did affect one's heath.
Has the Oz government recompensed those poor ex-Vet blighters yet, I wonder?
I remember reading an unusual story, after Gulf War 1, that some 'innoculated' USA soldiers, after returning home very physically ill, had somehow transferred the same 'virus', or condition, to their families.
Really makes one ashamed to be a member of the West sometimes.
cheers
fog
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