Toxic Chemicals Blamed for Gulf War Illness ... Healthfraud Stephen Barrett Proven Wrong Yet Again
Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
industry harm denier.
His nonsense:
"Multiple chemical sensitivity, sick building syndrome, food-related
hyperactivity, mercury amalgam toxicity, candidiasis hyperactivity,
Gulf War syndrome-these are all costly misbeliefs and fad diagnoses,
says Barrett. "Many Americans believe that exposure to common foods
and chemicals makes them ill," he says. "This book is about people who
hold such beliefs but are wrong." Stephen Barrett
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
Toxic Chemicals Blamed for Gulf War Illness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111701821_pf.html
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
Monday, November 17, 2008; 12:00 AM
MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Gulf War illness, dismissed by
some as a psychosomatic disorder, is a very real illness that affects
at least 25 percent of the 700,000 U.S. veterans who took part in the
1991 Gulf War.
Its likely cause was exposure to toxic chemicals that included
pesticides that were often overused during the war, as well as a drug
given to U.S. troops to protect them from nerve gas, a frequent weapon
of choice of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
And no effective treatments have been devised for the disorder.
Those are three key conclusions of a Congressionally mandated landmark
report released Monday by a federal panel of scientific experts and
veterans.
"It is very clear that Gulf War illness is a real condition that was
not caused by combat stress or other psychological factors," said Lea
Steele, scientific director of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf
War Veterans' Illnesses, which issued the report, and an associate
professor at Kansas State University.
"This is something we need to take seriously," Steele said. "These
folks were injured in wartime service, much as people who were shot
with bullets or hit with bombs."
The committee presented the 450-page report to Secretary of Veterans
Affairs James Peake.
Gulf War illness is frequently described as a collection of symptoms
that includes memory and concentration problems, chronic headaches,
fatigue and widespread pain. Other symptoms can include persistent
digestive problems, respiratory symptoms and skin rashes.
The panel also said Gulf War veterans have much higher rates of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease) than
other veterans, and soldiers who were downwind from large-scale
munitions demolitions in 1991 have died from brain cancer at twice the
rate of other Gulf War veterans.
In reaching its conclusions, the panel reviewed evidence about a wide
range of possible environmental exposures that could cause Gulf War
illness. That review included hundreds of studies of Gulf War
veterans, research in other groups of populations, animal studies of
toxic exposures, and government investigations about events and
exposures during the Gulf War, which began after Hussein invaded
Kuwait.
Speculation about the causes of Gulf War illness has included exposure
to depleted uranium munitions, vaccines, nerve agents and oil well
fires.
The new report says the illness was caused by soldiers' exposure to
certain chemicals, Steele said.
"When you put all the evidence together there are two chemicals that
jump out as the main causes," she said. One is a drug called
pyridostigmine bromide, which is a cholinesterase inhibitor that was
given to the troops to protect them against nerve gas.
"It turns out that people who took those pills have a higher rate of
Gulf War illness," Steele said. "And people who took more pills have
even higher rates of Gulf War illness."
In addition, soldiers were exposed to pesticides that were also
cholinesterase inhibitors, Steele said. "The strongest evidence points
to pyridostigmine bromide and pesticides as causal factors," she said.
"This type of illness has not been seen after other wars."
While pyridostigmine bromide is still in use, its use is more limited
than it was in the first Gulf War. It's currently being used against
one type of nerve agent, but is not being given out on a widespread
basis, Steele said.
"The Gulf War was the only time a lot of people used this drug," she
said.
Steele added that the U.S. military has also cut back on its use of
pesticides since the 1991 war.
There are other factors that, while not likely causes of Gulf War
illness, can't be ruled out, Steele said. These include exposure to
nerve agents, exposure to smoke from oil well fires, and vaccines
given to the troops. The panel ruled out depleted uranium and anthrax
vaccine as causes.
The panel also found government research and funding into Gulf War
illness wanting. "There has not been sufficient attention given to
Gulf War illness. It's a real problem," Steele said.
"In recent years, both the Department of Defense and the Department of
Veterans Affairs have reported a lot of studies that weren't Gulf War
illness as Gulf War research," Steele added. "Some of the money was
misused."
The panel noted that overall federal funding for Gulf War research has
declined substantially in recent years; the group urged lawmakers to
devote $60 million annually to such programs.
When veterans with Gulf War illness go to Veterans Administration
hospitals for treatment, their problems often aren't taken seriously,
Steele said. "VA docs often know nothing about it and aren't able to
help them. Sometimes they treat them as if they are head cases or
malingering," she said.
James Binns is chairman of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs'
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses.
"We have no treatments that work," said Binns, a Vietnam veteran and
former Pentagon official. "I would like to see the new administration
take this more seriously. When you look at all the studies, it's as
clear as the nose on your face that this [Gulf War illness] is real."
It took 20 years to admit that Agent Orange, a defoliant used in the
Vietnam war, caused illness, Binns said. "It's now coming up to 17
years on Gulf War illness," he said. "Troop exposures [to these
chemicals] were a serious but honest mistake. Covering it up rather
than trying to help them has been unconscionable."
More information
Learn more about Gulf War illness from the University of Chicago
Medical Center.
SOURCES: Lea Steele, Ph.D., associate professor, Kansas State
University, Manhattan, and scientific director, Research Advisory
Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses; James Binns, chairman, U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs' Research Advisory Committee on Gulf
War Veterans' Illnesses
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> Note from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>
> For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
> timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
> propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
> smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
> being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
> of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
> industry harm denier.
>
> His nonsense:
>
> "Multiple chemical sensitivity, sick building syndrome, food-related
> hyperactivity, mercury amalgam toxicity, candidiasis hyperactivity,
> Gulf War syndrome-these are all costly misbeliefs and fad diagnoses,
> says Barrett. "Many Americans believe that exposure to common foods
> and chemicals makes them ill," he says. "This book is about people who
> hold such beliefs but are wrong." Stephen Barrett
>
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
>
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Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
industry harm denier.
His nonsense:
"Multiple chemical sensitivity, sick building syndrome, food-related
hyperactivity, mercury amalgam toxicity, candidiasis hyperactivity,
Gulf War syndrome-these are all costly misbeliefs and fad diagnoses,
says Barrett. "Many Americans believe that exposure to common foods
and chemicals makes them ill," he says. "This book is about people who
hold such beliefs but are wrong." Stephen Barrett
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
Toxic Chemicals Blamed for Gulf War Illness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111701821_pf.html
stephsky1975!gmail.com
>
> For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
> timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
> propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
> smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
> being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
> of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
> industry harm denier.
>
> His nonsense:
>
> "Multiple chemical sensitivity, sick building syndrome, food-related
> hyperactivity, mercury amalgam toxicity, candidiasis hyperactivity,
> Gulf War syndrome-these are all costly misbeliefs and fad diagnoses,
> says Barrett. "Many Americans believe that exposure to common foods
> and chemicals makes them ill," he says. "This book is about people who
> hold such beliefs but are wrong." Stephen Barrett
>
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
>
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Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
industry harm denier.
His nonsense:
"Multiple chemical sensitivity, sick building syndrome, food-related
hyperactivity, mercury amalgam toxicity, candidiasis hyperactivity,
Gulf War syndrome-these are all costly misbeliefs and fad diagnoses,
says Barrett. "Many Americans believe that exposure to common foods
and chemicals makes them ill," he says. "This book is about people who
hold such beliefs but are wrong." Stephen Barrett
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
Toxic Chemicals Blamed for Gulf War Illness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111701821_pf.html
Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
industry harm denier.
Although he mislabels himself a 'consumer advocate' ... he is a
disinformation agent for hire by the chemical / pharmaceutical etc.
industries.
Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
For years, people harmed by GWS, breast implants, and other chemical
timebombs have been further battered by the chemical industry's vast
propaganda team ... much of it led by Stephen Barrett. He sues and
smears fine scientists working to find the causes and cures ... while
being paid to write the chemical industry POV. He has caused millions
of people more suffering and harm as the chemical & vaccination
industry harm denier.
His nonsense: