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The RAC report that named pesticides and PB pills and forced the VA to answer
A congressional advisory committee confronts veterans’ worsening health in 2002, linking pesticides to Gulf War Illness - will the VA answer?
The RAC report that named pesticides and PB pills and forced the VA to answer
In this episode, we follow the formation and work of the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) created to study the unexplained illnesses of 1991 Gulf War veterans. The episode traces the committee’s evidence, the institutional delays, and the stakes of calling the condition an illness rather than a syndrome: what did that naming change?
Person: VA Secretary Anthony Principi
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