In one of life's delicious little twists, Wessely is today considered one of the leading researchers on Gulf War syndrome. His studies on scores of veterans reveal that fighting in the Gulf did affect their health, causing still undefined ailments, and that multiple vaccinations play at least a small role in their infirmities. His findings have forced governments and the medical community to re-evaluate treatment of Gulf War veterans. "We haven't found the smoking gun and I don't think we will," says Wessely, psychiatric epidemiologist and head of general hospital psychiatry at London's Institute of Psychiatry. "But we have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that something has happened and attention must be paid. It's not aberration or media frenzy."
Wessely asserts that no single solution can explain illnesses like Gulf War syndrome, and his multidisciplinary team of researchers includes a war historian, who compares the syndrome with illnesses ...
