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8 Philip Shenon, “Two Studies Seem to Back Veterans Who Trace Illnesses to Gulf War,” New York Times, 26 November 1996, pp. A1, 10; Robert Haley et al., “Is There a Gulf War Syndome?” and “Self Reported Exposure to Neurotoxic Chemical- Combinations in the Gulf War,” Journal of the American Medical Association 277 (1997): 215-22 and 231-37; Seymour Hersh, Against All Enemies (New York: Ballantine, 1998).
9 William Lowther, “Mystery Illness and the Gulf War,” Maclean‘s, 23 August 1993, pp. 32-33; Gregory Jaynes, “Walking Wounded,” Esquire, May 1994, pp. 70-76; Michael Fumento, “Gulf War Syndrome and the Press,” Wall Street Journal, 4 March 1997, p. A18.
10 J. R. Moehringer, “Legacy of Worry,” Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1995, pp. A3, 27. For another article about babies with GWS see Kenneth Miller, “The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm,” Life, November 1995, pp. 46-62.
11 Moehringer, “Legacy of Worry.” For another example see Christopher Cook and Nancy Ann Jeffrey, “Gulf War Veterans Can’t Escape Strange Diseases, Nightmares,” Knight-Ridder Newspapers, 16 December 1993.
12 David Cowan et al., “The Risk of Birth Defects Among Children of Persian Gulf War Veterans,” New England Journal of Medicine 336 (1997): 1650-56; Terence Monmaney, “Study Finds No Gulf War Link to Birth Defect Risk,” Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1997, pp. A1, 27; J. R. Moehringer, “Gulf War Syndrome Feared to Be Contagious,” 9 March 1997, pp. A1, 24, 25.
13 Moehringer, “Gulf War Syndrome.”
14 CNN, “Defense Chief: ‘No Evidence’ Gulf War Illness Is Contagious,” 10 March 1997; “Medical Professionals Say Gulf War Illness Contagious,” Associated Press, 10 March 1997; “Gulf War Ills May Be Contagious,” Roanoke Times, 10 March 1997, pp. A1, 2. On the transmissibility of GWS see also Showalter, Hystories; PBS, “Frontline: Last Battle of the Gulf War,” 20 January 1998.
15 See also L. A. McKeown, “A ‘Disease’ with No Conclusive Evidence,” MSNBC, 1997 (Web posted).
16 MacArthur, Lapdogs for the Pentagon (contains Rather quotes); Michelle Kendrick, “Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome,” in Rabinovitz and Jeffords, eds., Seeing Through the Media, pp. 59-76. For an example of an article highly suspicious and critical of the Pentagon see Dennis Bernstein and Thea Kelley, “The Gulf War Comes Home,” Progressive, March 1995, pp. 30-34.
17 Showalter, Hystories, p. 142.
18 For examples in the New York Times see Eric Schmitt, “No Proof Is Found Of Chemical Cause For Gulf Illness,” 8 January 1997, pp. A1 and C23; Philip Shenon, “Oversight Suggested for Study of Gulf War Ills,” 14 November 1996, p. A10; Gina Kolata, “No Rise Found in Death Rates After Gulf War,” 14 November 1996, pp. A1, 10 (“leading critics” quotes); Philip Hilts, “Panel Doubts Gulf War ‘Syndrome’ Is New,” 1 January 1996. See also John Ritter, “Report: Military Knew Risks of Gulf War Drugs,” USA Today, 8 December 1994, p. A3 (includes gas chamber example); and Bernstein and Kelley, “Gulf War Comes Home.”
19 See John Kennedy, “The Last Campaign,” George, April 1997, pp. 108-11; Haley et al., “Is There a Gulf War Syndrome?” and “Self Reported Exposure.” For a summary iof the refutations, see PBS, “Frontline: Last Battle.”
20 Kate McKenna, “Missed Story Syndrome,” American Journalism Review (May 1997): 22-30; Dana Priest, “The Gulf War’s Credibility Fallout,” Washington Post National Edition, 24 November 1996, pp. 8-10; Philip Shenon, “Powell Says He Had No Evidence of Toxic Chemicals in Gulf War,” New York Times, 3 December 1996, p. A1.
21 Kolata, “No Rise Found”; Joyce Lashof and Joseph Cassells, “Illness Among Gulf War Veterans,” Journal of the American Medical Association 280 (1998): 1010-11.
22 David Brown, “The Gulf Between ‘Syndrome’ and Poison Gas,” Washington Post, 2 January 1997, p. A1.
23 Hersh, Against All Enemies; Philip Shenon, “Study Links Memory Loss to Nerve Gas, as in Gulf,” New York Times, 14 May 1997, p. A12; idem, “On Gulf-Illness Panel,