An Assessment of Technical Issues Raised in R.W.Haley's Critique of Three Studies of Health Effects of the Gulf War

Abstract: text (initials) In a 1998 article published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, R.W. Haley challenged the validity of three government-sponsored studies that found no increased risk of adverse health effects in American veterans of Operation Desert Storm and operation Desert Shield. This report refutes Haley's charges of "bias" and concludes, based on a close examination of the statistical methods used by the authors of the original studies, that their research was sound and their findings were scientifically valid.