hechildren of Gulf war veterans and children of comparable soldiers have been analyzed, andthey have the exact same percentage of birth defects. There have also been cases such as with Denise Nichols. She gave testimonybefore Congress that she had transmitted Gulf War Syndrome to one of her children. Sheclaimed that her own daughter, had been diagnosed with congenital cataracts, after herreturn from the Gulf War. But she did not understand that congenital means “from or atbirth”. Basically her doctor had told her daughter had told her that her daughter did notreceive her cataracts as a result of her mothers war duty. She was born with the problem.There have also been many claims of cancer among veterans. Such as DickFoster’s of the Rocky Mountain News. He claimed that William L. Marcus’scongressional testimony in June 1996 had claimed that Gulf War veterans have a cancerrate of three to six times that of the normal civilian population. But the data Marcus hadgiven were not for cancers as a whole, but for multiple myeloma. Which is a cancer of thebone marrow. Marcus had not given any overall figures on cancer. CDC Director David Satcher later sent a letter with information explaining indetail why the data from Marcus was “no adequate to sees whether service in the GulfWar resulted in increased risk for tumors or death from cancer”. A representative of theVA testified that the data was too limited not only to say just how many Gulf Warveterans had cancer, but also to determine what a normal rate of cancer would be.After this, Marcus’s data was useless. Marcus is not an epidemiologist orstatistician, he is an EPA toxicologist that did his own calculations. He did not author astudy that has appeared in a peer reviewed journal, he has authored no study at all. Theonly actual data found is that by the end of 1996, there were 52,000 veterans that hadbeen medically evaluated, and only tw...
