NEXT THEY'LL BE TELLING US AGENT ORANGE ONLY CAUSES ACNE...:

No such thing as Gulf War Syndrome -- who knew? (Michael Fumento, 9/12/06)

Since 1993 I have been arguing that Gulf War Syndrome, or "Gulf Lore Syndrome" as I titled one of my articles, is a myth. I wrote almost 30 articles on the subject. And I received the sort of invective you'd expect, questioning my patriotism and loyalty to the troops for putting science ahead of hysteria and political considerations. Now the Institute of Medicine has released a report based on a review of 850 studies and found "the results of that research indicate that ... there is not a unique symptom complex (or syndrome) in deployed Gulf War veterans." Of course, out of 700,000 men and women who went over some have fallen ill and some have died. It's been 15 years, after all. But they don't have anything non-deployed vets have, or for that matter civilians. Not that this will stop the activists...

As Mr. Fumento understands better than anybody, it's not about medicine, just political correctness.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 12, 2006 11:47 PM