Our own less than forthcoming collaborative US Government/Chemical companies duo; knew this fact decades ago.

 

One of the more bizarre aspects of the report from the CDC was the claim that those veterans who suffered most from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had served on Navy ships off the coast of Vietnam. It said that those who had served in III Corps, which had some of the heaviest Agent Orange spraying of the war, seemed to be at lower risk.

 

This is classic US government BS logic.

 

In context:  This was before the admission of non-hodgkin's lymphoma in those that were geographically in Vietnam and the government was still in the complete denial mode of any toxic chemical damages and used this example as "see how can it be associated and common?"  Once again our honest government at work.

 

Any "sane person," not trying to cover up these issues after making the statements above, would with logic and purpose once it was concluded that there was a connection and the water was indeed found to be contaminated would say to themselves; Why does the Navy personnel seemed to be more involved with this disorder.  Is this an anomaly or is for other reasons such as:

• Maybe the ships that got water from Vietnam or other geographical areas such as Guam that the water was proven contaminated may just have been the worst contaminated.

• Maybe the Navy personal were exposed in a different form such as "drinking the swill" the whole time they were on board.

• Maybe the dose rate would be cumulative to the holding tanks as every time the ship took on water the dose rate would be elevated.  No different than our "water buffalos" the ground troops used in country.

• It could be feasible that those transport ships that had made several trips to Vietnam and other places where the ground water was contaminated and then transported our ground troops over "as units" such as my 2/94th artillery unit which was transported along with the 1/40 artillery; would have immediately been exposed the minute the ship set sail for Vietnam.  Although with our ship that probably did not happen since the last use of that ship was the Inchon landings during the Korean war.  However, that does not mean it would not be possible for those ships that did meet the criteria. 

{Please note:  the CDC reports as well as Rand Hand reports were and are highly dubious as to integrity and directly charged with scientific misconduct, including White House involvement.

 

Probably not the United States Government you envisioned when you Veterans put your ass on the line for these less than honorable politicians and Presidents that dropped you like a hot potato as they realized the impacts of what that arrogant Johnson and McNamara had actually created.

The *Institute of Medicine in the weeks before the CDC released its results of blood tests wrote a stinging rebuke of the CDC's tests methods. It said that none of the CDC's conclusions was supported by scientific data. The CDC refused to turn this report over to the White House.

"Either it was a politically rigged operation or it was a monumentally bungled operation," said Rep. Ted Weiss (D-NY), chairman of the Government Operations Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee.

Other information began turning up that there were concerted efforts by various agencies of the government to conceal records and information about the effects of Agent Orange.

Daschle learned that there were major discrepancies between a January 1984 draft of the Air Force's Operation Ranch Hand study and the February 1984 report. According to Daschle, the draft showed there were twice as many birth defects among the children of Ranch Hand participants. "The draft also reported that the Ranch Handers were less well than the controls by a ratio of 5 to 1," said Daschle.

But these results "were deleted" from the final Ranch Hand report, which said there had been no adverse effects from exposure to Agent Orange.  {That Veterans is what I call "criminal with criminal intent" on behalf of the United States Government to include giving no warning and being culpable in the death and disablement of those involved.  If that had been a civilian entity the lawyers would still be filing lawsuits for "contributing to" or "allowing the death of" their client.}

"The Air Force deleted these findings from the final report at the suggestion of a Ranch Hand Advisory Committee set up by the White House Agent Orange Working Group," said Daschle.

Air Force scientists involved in the study said they were pressured by non-scientists within the Air Force and the White House to change the results and delete critical information for the final report. Daschle says he has even obtained two versions of the minutes of the meeting in which that pressure was applied. One confirms what the scientists told him. Another set deletes that information.

"What happened there was a fraud perpetrated by people whose names we still do not know," said Daschle.

Part of the fraud appears to have been perpetrated by the Monsanto Corp., which produces a number of chemicals containing dioxin. Monsanto knowingly rigged test results of employees who had been exposed to dioxin to make the effects of it appear far less than it actually was, according to a February 23, 1990 Environmental Protection Agency memorandum.

"There is no risk in this study associated with (dioxin) exposure," said Dr. Daniel Hoffman of the CDC.

 

"The conclusion seems to fly in the face of other scientific studies, which indicates there is a connection between Agent Orange and cancer, birth defects and other disorders. It makes it sound like Agent Orange is like orange juice, healthy for you instead of harmful."

 

*Institute of Medicine (IOM)

 

I think it is obvious that once the IOM became the government contractor in 1991 for establishing the associations and presumptions of disorders caused by the toxic chemicals (plural) swill they then changed their spots and became a total allies of the government; not science.  Amazing how money does that very thing.