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Re: Can Somebody Explain this to me . . . .
Until the funding stops?
--- Raymond A Hoover <ray2hoover@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> After the last Gulf War, there were a whole bunch of
> studies done by different organizations, including
> several European governments. As I remember most of
> the studies concluded that there was no measureable
> effect, but that more studies were needed. The real
> question, it seems, is how many studies are needed?
>
> RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:In my opinion, the attached
> post conflates two issues, and I will try to
> separate them.
>
> 1. Psychosomatic illness is real illness, and
> recently has been quite successfully treated with
> psychiatry (I heard a piece about this on National
> Public Radio,that "liberal" pinko radionetwork).
> When I say successfully, it appears that the
> patients really do feel better and really do stop
> going from doctor to doctor trying to find the cause
> of their illness, and always convincced that the
> last doctor was a quack.
> 2. It is, however, important to find the cause of an
> illness, because only be knowing the actual cause
> can that illness be prevented or mitigated. Take the
> case of AIDS, which was initially thought to be a
> disease of homosexuality. Had this been accepted,
> and had all the effort and money gone into
> preventing homosexual practices of various sorts and
> into AIDS treatment, and no effort gone into really
> elucidating the cause (transmission of the AIDS
> virus by bodily fluids), we would not be protecting
> our blood supply. As it was, Arthur Ashe died from
> AIDS transmitted by transfusion, before the blood
> supply was adequately protected.
>
> i think we have a responsibility to demonstrate that
> DU is NOT the cause of these various illnesses, and
> I don't think we should compensate people for an
> exceedingly uncertain cause. If they are sick
> because they think they are sick, psychiatric
> treatment appears to be one way to go.
>
> Ruth
>
>
> In a message dated 4/8/2004 11:08:47 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time, james.g.barnes@att.net writes:
>
> >[Sorry if this is a double posting; I seem to be
> having trouble with my email program.]
> >
> >Dear Louis;
> >
> >I'm not a medical doctor, but I've followed these
> situations with some interest.
> >
> >To my knowledge of uranium physiology, I know of no
> effect that these soldiers are describing that is
> traceable to low levels of DU contamination. That's
> based on a pretty extensive series of studies as
> well as an extensive population of nuclear workers
> exposed to uranium during refining and utilization
> processes. The level of exposures to these nuclear
> workers certainly would bracket the exposure levels
> to soldiers who may have been exposed to DU during
> combat operations in in combat areas. It seems
> logical to me that these worker populations would
> have been displaying the same symptoms as the
> soldiers, but to my knowledge they have not....
> >
>
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