Re: [gulflink] The Problem with PSOB - Rudman wins again

January 27, 2001

Kirt and others,

Go back to the PAC Special Report, (which is online @

http://www.gwvi.ncr.gov/toc1.html) and look at it closely. Print it out

(it's not that long) and USE IT! Recent DOD reports on GWS claim the

Special Report supports what they have done, but it clearly does not.

The PAC Special Report (the last of four PAC Reports) slams DOD on many

different things. One slam is the fact that OSAGWI covered up a very

good report by MITRE on Gulf exposures. They make some of the exact same

types of comments that 's letter makes about OSAGWI.

I do not think Dr. Vinh Cam's comments and 's letter have been

refuted: this Special Report makes clear that OSAGWI is simply a

cover-up agency for the Gulf War ill. We need to keep hitting the DOD

on this. Cam and are not left hanging out to dry; instead there

is a lot of documentary support for what they have said. The Special

Report even talks about why there is a need for a non-DOD entity to

oversee the DOD GW research: PSOB was then supposed to be that entity.

So much for " Independent Oversight! "

By the way, STRESS as the " cause " of GWS is fast sinking into a black

hole. I just returned from the PGWCB conference on GWS and presenter

after presenter showed that PTSD and stress are NOT causing the very

real medical illnesses vets are displaying. There remained, of course,

numerous reports from the pseudoscientists, but the meaty, real science

is showing that there is something real, and the experts agree with the

symptoms, agree with the pathology being autonomic nervous system,

memory, attention, speed of mental processing, abnormal

hypothalamic/pituitary axis function, etc. Dan Clauw even gave a

terrific seminar on how to treat GWS based on the fibromyalgia model.

(I use everything he mentioned and a few other interventions and they

are helpful, though not curative.)

Meryl Nass, MD

brostker@... wrote:

>

> Some PSOB documents

>

> Kirt--Thought you would like to have copies of

> Bill 's retraction, Sen Rudman's acceptance,

> and Dr. Cam's April 5, 2000 letter requesting that the

> Board devote a chapter to stress in its Final Report.

>

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