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What the World Needs
Now is Hate Mail, Sweet Hate Mail
Back in 1971, Jackie DeShannon sang: “What the world needs now, is hate sweet hate. Wouldn’t it be great, if we all had a little hate!” Or something like that. Anyway, I was just a little kid at the time, but as I grew up I discovered that something many of us take for granted is practically unknown in much of the world. Yes, many children in Africa, South America, and Asia go to sleep each night without receiving a single piece of hate mail. More shockingly, there are parts of the United States where this is also true. So I’m doing my part in sharing my hate mail with the world. Am I generous or what?
AIDS Hate“I’m Confused, So You’re Stupid!”
To the Editor of the American Outlook:
In Fumento's article on "AIDS – Making the Worst out of a Good Situation" –
First, he stated in his open paragraph, that, "AIDS cases decreased from approximately 60,000 in 1997 to about 48,000 in 1998, according to the Centers for Disease Control . . ."
But in the adjacent column, he stated, ". . . CDC infection rates . . . the last several years, the agency has hald [sic] to a nice, round, unsubstantiated guess of 40,000 per year."
60,000 and 48,000 is a 20%-33% self-contradiction compared to 40,000. Additionally, in one part he states, "CDC infection rates have never been anything but guesses . . . ." Yet in the very next paragraph he states, "The hard data are that teen AIDS cases are declining; in 1998 there were all of 444."
If the CDC rates are "guesses," how can the author declare that there were exactly 444 – rather than perhaps, "approximately 450" or "about 400 to 500"?
These LARGE self-contradictions were so substantive that I ended up feeling that I couldn't trust anything Fumento wrote in that article. NOT a good reflection on Hudson's reputation!
All the best,
Um, excuse me Jim, "quibble" about the difference between HIV infection and full-blown AIDS cases? Do you call it quibbling to differentiate between having a neck ache and being decapitated? And with tens of thousands of news articles out there that for some reason distinguish between AIDS cases and HIV infections, you're going to "a group of sex-information counselors for their thoughts on the matter . . . " My guess is their thoughts are they have better things to do than to respond to you. In any case, the CDC has very strict definitions for each; you hardly need call together a committee.
Jim, get a life, get some humility, get two brain cells and don't call me in the morning.
[At this point, gentle reader, Jim went absolutely bonkers, sending out three different e-mails in about three minutes’ time. I responded:]
Your momma's calling little boy! Go away and let the grownups do their work!
[Then our genius friend sent copies to absolutely every e-mail address at the Hudson Institute. I could only conclude that Jim didn’t work for MicroTimes, but rather MicroBrains. I wrote:]
It is really rather amazing that somebody in the year 2000 would not have the intelligence to know the difference between and AIDS case and an infection, nor the humility to keep his ignorance to himself, but rather to go on blasting it away to anyone whose email address he can find. You are not wanted here; I suspect you are not wanted anywhere. Now go away. Shoo! Scat!
From: IBJiggin@[omitted]
Hello Mikey!
Speaking of reevaluating; Your column today was especially uninteresting, it was entitled: "Scientists will fudge data to get published" . Gee, really? For once, I think the paper picked a good source for that type of article. After all, based on your position, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," I figured you wrote the book on fudging data to get published. See if you can fudge these: Close to 50 million people infected, with approximately 11 more men, women, and children becoming infected every 60 seconds. And just imagine, based on your assertions, all of them are gay. There are four countries in the southern part of Africa who number 25% of their total
population suffering from AIDS. So a quarter of them are homosexuals too?
There must not be a shred of pink fabric left for miles.
I want to close quickly, because you really don't warrant more than a few seconds of time, but I did want to let you know that you still have one or two people who still read you. Even if it is just for a laugh.
Regards,
While we have solid data on the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe, and all that data show AIDS cases and heterosexual AIDS cases declining, the 50 million worldwide figure you provide is an estimate of infections made by an organization (the World Health Organization) that gets money in part on the size of its estimates. Most of us would consider that not particularly reliable. But since you think it serves your purpose, you don't worry about such things.
All of them gay? That's not what I wrote in an entire chapter in my AIDS book, entitled "But what about Africa?" But it's a lot more fun blasting people than reading what they've written, isn't it Gary?
Another factor is that individual countries are counting deaths from many different diseases as AIDS deaths. (Unlike in the U.S., there is no requirement that the person have tested HIV+ .) Why would they do this? Because they know that people like you probably don't even know that millions of Africans die each year from curable diseases like malaria, TB, and pathogens that cause fatal diarrhea. And if you did know, you wouldn't care. But say the word "AIDS" and
everybody comes running with doctors and money. Your own letter makes it clear you don't give a rodent's rump about these people; you're exploiting them. Guess that's just the kinda guy you are!
As to my alleged pudginess, I have a body mass index of 23, which is considered essentially perfect. But I know that many homosexuals are partial to super thin men. Oh, but you're emphatic that you're heterosexual. Well sure you are, Gary. It's just that one night you went to a gay bar only because you really like the music and you saw that kind of cute guy across
the floor and you really had had too much to drink and next thing you know . . . . Or no, here's what happened. You were in a straight bar but somebody must have slipped you one of those pills you hear about in the stories where the guy wakes up in a bathtub of ice with both kidneys removed. But in your case, you woke up in another man’s bed with a sore rear end. Poor, poor, Gary. So misunderstood and so upset that fewer and fewer new Americans are sharing his disease with him.
dlingl@[omitted] iopener.net writes:
the [sic] sHit [sic] list!
Well, dingaling, that probably explains why you can't spell "you're," don’t know that sentences begin with capital letters, and think for some odd reason that the “H” in “shit” deserves emphasis. Maybe your brains are in your, well, dingaling.
[He quickly amended this with another note.]
Michael Fumento is a phat ass punk.wanna phight.hunt this animal asshole.
One brief comment [regarding “HBO'S Anti-Whitewashed Fairy Tales”]:
Do you have any idea how my black daughter and her asian [sic] friends are effected [sic] by exclusive exposure to Disney's Cinderella, Snow White, Little Mermaid, or even the white illustrations of Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson? How dare you think that YOU and images of YOU represent universality, while images of OTHERS are offensive and insulting.
Whites, like yourself (I assume), dare to envision God, Christ, and the angels as white. You think YOU are the world. Well, we know better. We know that the majority of the world is of color even though the majority of the US is without color. And, to buffer ourselves from the extreme hubris and eurocentrism of this country, we delight in films, books, worlds where you are not predominant or present.
You speak of children in a world “only exposed to movies portraying characters not of their race.” Pray, what world would that be, when ranked among our top movie stars are the likes of Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams, and many other blacks? Michael Jordan, whose talent on film is inverse to that on the basketball court, nevertheless starred in a major film. Films aside, I suppose Oprah Winfrey has the most successful talk show in history because all those whites who tune in think she just has a terrific tan?
Why are the above actors and actresses such box-office draws? Because with a few exceptions such as yourself, movie-goers DO relate to actors regardless of skin color. A recent hit film, “Romeo Must Die,” starred a Hong Kong actor and featured a group of blacks in the best light, Asians in the middle, and whites worst. No, I didn’t picket the movie; I watched it and enjoyed it.
Fairy-tale characters should be depicted as resembling the original characters they were based on. Hansel and Gretel were Germanic, hence it’s as wrong to make them black or Asian as it would be to make Gretel a boy and Hansel a girl. You may call that bigotry; I call it accuracy. I would find it no less obnoxious than seeing Frederick Douglass portrayed by Keanu Reeves or even George Clooney.
Obviously you completely disagree with the minister who once proclaimed, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Your dream is of a color-coded world, where story-lines and actors are carefully chosen to fall into neat categories that are literally skin-deep.
My sympathy to your daughter, for having to grow up in a home where white and black and are so clearly delineated. And by the way, I really do wish I could remember who the fellow was that I just quoted, but I can’t. I’m sure you understand; after all, he was black and I’m not.
[Note: This is the same Charlie from Hate Mail Volume III who kept sticking his foot deeper and deeper into his mouth. He obviously has a very deep throat.]
Message text written by "Charlie":
Its [sic] obvious you have more strings attached to you than a cheap piano. You attack the very people that defend your right to speak and write freely. Remember this always, all that you have is your soul.
Mr. Fumento,
Sir:
You are a [sic] insensitive person. I wouldn't be surprised to find that you are being paid by the government to devaluate [sic] any information on GWS. I'm confident however, the following saying is true, "What goes around, comes around." One day sir, you will be on the receiving end. I wish I could be around to hear you "whine."
I expected a reply such as this. I suspected you were a misinformed person, now, you have confirmed my suspicions. Those sick individuals I referred to are Gulf war personnel, as you well know. Your sarcasm as well as your stupidity is showing. These are fine attributes for someone in your profession. You are only someone to be ignored. I will pray for you sir. That's the best I can do.
Michael, you sound like a real ass. I like [sic] to know if your
[sic] getting pay [sic] by the people who sell these drugs. you know the
big man won't take these vaccine... [sic] WHY.... oh i’m [sic] on with
my life and the wars [sic] not over yet until they fine out why the gulf
[sic] soldier [sic] are getting sick. OH big m-we will win.
Dear Michael,
Dear Michael -
I am writing to you as a witness to say that Gulf War Syndrome is very real. My spouse has a variety of symptoms including burning semen, severe allergy problems, etc. etc. The list goes on and on.
I basically am here to tell you that you are a 1st class jerk if you believe it doesn't exist. You obviously know nothing about the real deal our men were dealt.
But let's consider those symptoms. According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, about 38% of all Americans are affected by allergies throughout the year. That comes out to about 102 million. Yet only 700,000 Americans served in Desert Storm. Pray, how did the other 101.3 million people contract their allergic reactions? Was it from watching coverage of the war on TV? Or are you saying that regardless that allergies are so common, you just "feel" or "know in your heart" that your husband's are from the Gulf? In that case, madam, I congratulate you for it means you have ESP. You should stop writing nasty letters and start working for the Psychic Hotline. Better yet, just play the lottery once and become rich.
I'm sorry to bore you with this medical and scientific stuff, but you see I have to rely on medicine and science since you're the psychic and I'm just a pitiful 1st class jerk.
[This next letter is from the husband of the woman who wrote the previous one.]
From WARZONE@[omitted]
[Footnote: I forwarded the man’s name to a high-ranking friend in the military who confirmed that nobody by this name received any medals from the Gulf War, nor is there any evidence he even served there. I suspect many of the Gulf War "victims" I and others get letters from never served in the area, just as it turned out that many "victims" of Agent Orange never got anywhere near Vietnam].
Mr. Fumento,
I have read some of your trash regarding Gulf War Syndrome, and I am disgusted.
A DOD and VA study that is testing Prof. Nicolsons' [sic] work on GWI [Gulf War Illness] is finding almost exactly the same results as the Nicolsons' [sic], the difference is, the DOD/VA chose to do the research themselves rather than funding the Nicolsons' [sic] so they can control the study as they are now doing, I know because I am in this study. The DOD/VA study is not looking for the modified or unusual DNA the Nicolsons' [sic] described in their work, why? because that may lead to some evidence. This goes against the "leave no stone unturned policy"and will only further delay any real answers to GWI.
Unless you were there on the ground with us, having vaccines forced on you and having to sign SECRET non_disclosure statements, unless you were there, watching the bombs fall and the smoke roll in, unless you were there watching Iraqi ammo bunkers explode in the air, unless you were there driving through columns of Iraqi tanks destroyed by depleted uranium , [sic] unless you were there, you dare to seek publicity on the subject, as hypocrites do. [Huh?]
You speak on issues you know nothing about, only to gain recognition for your creative writing skills. You have no idea the suffering of those who would defend YOUR freedom and YOUR [sic] and way of life.
Your opinion is preserved by those whom you speak of [sic] a manner so ignorant, cynical, and irresponsible.
Mr. Perot is one of the most patriotic Americans who ever lived, with the courage to reform our corrupt government. Mr. Perot has more moral conviction than you will ever comprehend, I pity you.
As a matter of fact, just a note,you [sic] look like Saddam Hussein and probably share his genes.
End of conversation.
Regarding the DoD/VA follow-up on the work of that bizarre couple the Nicolsons (described at length in Gulf Lore Syndrome), it’s not that they’re not looking; they’re not finding. The Nicolsons’ work, by some great surprise, cannot be duplicated. Sort of like those good ol’ boys from Utah who “discovered” cold fusion but nobody could ever duplicate their work, either.
And here we go again with the old, “you weren’t there.” Actually, I happen to know that some of you Gulf vets who write nasty letters to me were never there, either. Indeed, some were probably never in the military. But in any case, I suppose your conspiracy buddies, Perot and the Nicolsons, they were there, huh?
The closest you get to striking home is accusing me of "sharing" genes with Saddam. You’re right. Indeed, 99.9% of my genes are identical to his. So are 99.9% of yours and every other human’s. But Sparky, I’M not the one comforting him by telling him he may have lost the battle but won the war by inflicting tens of thousands of our troops with a mysterious illness.
Dear Mr. Fumento,
That’s quite a tale about those Live Nukes of yours, but it never happened. In 1976, while Americans and South Koreans were trying to trim a poplar tree that obscured observation in the Korean demilitarized zone, North Koreans beat two American officers to death with axe handles. In response, the U.S. temporarily beefed up air power slightly, sent a naval group towards the area, and put all U.S. troops in South Korea on alert. Then troops went in and chopped down the tree. No additional personnel were sent to Korea, much less 100,000, much less you. The stuff about "live nukes" is also nonsense.
What I DO believe from you is that you are receiving psychiatric treatment. I doubt if it’s voluntary, but if it is please stay with it.
To whom this may concern! How can you say there is no GWS. [sic]
The cancer rate among infants (children less than a year old) is about 235 per million, the highest cancer rate for children of any age. There is no evidence of any increase in this rate since the Gulf War. If babies are getting cancer at the same rate now as when there were no Gulf vets, pray what makes you insist that YOUR baby's cancer is Gulf-related? Did the doctors remove a tumor engraved with an image of Saddam Hussein? All you're really saying is that your husband served in the Gulf, since then you've had a baby, and that baby has cancer. The logical fallacy of "after this, therefore because of it" is literally thousands of years old. You could just as readily say that since the baby was born and the cancer diagnosed during Bill Clinton's presidential term, that Clinton caused the cancer. But with so many other things to blame him for, why pick on him for that?
"Many of the chemicals in scented products are known hazardous toxins and are documented" as such? Pray, offer up to me the documentation. And I don't regard something you pulled off an MCS Usenet group as a document. I can use the same method to "document" vast numbers of UFO abductions and impregnations. I mean something official. I "failed to mention" that all those groups "admit to chemical sensitivity" because none do. A "huge number of documents?" Fine, provide me with citations to a few.
Are you paid to send these kinds of letters instead of the true picture? Are you a shill for MCS "doctors" who make a fortune off poor misguided people?
By the way, I never said I didn’t suffer from exposure to certain chemicals. I have suffered mightily from a chemical in poison ivy and suffer each year from chemicals in certain types of pollen. But mother nature made those chemicals, so they don’t count, right?
I was really surprised to read your article making fun at people who become sick from modern fragrances.
Maybe Halifax Nova Scotia [sic] is a little bit intense but I know that I appreciate it when I can go to a movie, the theater or to church and don't have to get a headache or have breathing problems because somebody has doused themself [sic] in perfume or after shave.
I think that you might have a different perspective if you could spend a day on this side of the fence.
Dear Mr fumento [sic]
I am particularly woried [sic] by the Sunny Delight marketing strategy in the UK which promotes an image of health and nutrition.
I am trying to find a balance of information on the net, but find it hard to locate positive scientific studies that are not directly commisioned [sic] by monsanto [sic] and other companies that stand to directly gain from its sale.
Perhaps you can help
And noting that the study showed that brain tumors spiked at four years but then leveled off – despite a continual yearly increase in NutraSweet consumption – that's not scientific evidence either.
As to your worry over Sunny Delight, which uses NutraSweet, apparently it doesn't bother you in the least that more than half of Americans are now obese, that our sugar intake increases yearly, and that the U.K. has one of the fattest populations in Europe and is getting heavier by the year.
You don't want help, you want to match my facts against your feelings. I don't think I can win that one.
michael,
My advice to you, get your facts straight.
There have indeed been myriad studies on the effects of so-called "genetically engineered foods" on human health. I say so-called because you are obviously ignorant that virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified by humans at some point; what you really mean is the newest form of genetic modification called "biotech," "transgenic," or various other names. It’s telling that you have no idea that DDT has never been proven harmful to human beings despite decades of studies, some by researchers desperately trying to prove it is. Indeed, it is still in widespread use in Africa and other parts of the world to control malarial mosquitoes. The problems with DDT are that it kills a broad range of insects, including neutral or even beneficial ones, along with some evidence that it causes the thinning of the egg shells of some endangered species of birds. So, no, the "hudson institute" has no trouble refuting its "danger and toxicity to humans."
It’s not a matter of "thinking" biotech crops will need less pesticide; studies by the Agriculture Department and others have confirmed it. With some crops, sprayings have gone down from over a dozen a year to perhaps one or two. Farmers insist on buying these transgenic seeds even though they are far more expensive than what they previously bought. Why would they do so? Because it saves them the time and cost of spraying and additionally brings them higher yields than if they had sprayed repeatedly.
Is it less dangerous to put a pesticide directly into the plant? Actually, for pests (insects, weeds, fungi) that attack the plant, it’s far more dangerous since they can’t just wait until a good rain washes off the pesticide. But it’s actually less dangerous for beneficial or neutral insects, since an applicated pesticide can kill them even if they don’t eat the plant, but a plant with the pesticide built in can only kill something that eats it.
Lots of people know the answers to these questions, including those at the EPA, USDA, and FDA. You’re simply projecting your own ignorance on to others. Likewise with the environmentalists.
Finally, as to my paycheck, since you are apparently referring to a piece I ran in Investor's Business Daily, that is the source. Where does your paycheck come from, and why are you so insecure in dealing with facts that you have to make personal charges against those who disagree with you, implying they are simply paid mercenaries?
GM [genetically modified, meaning biotech] herbicide resistant crops mean you can use more (not less) herbicide on your crop, thereby killing more of the weeds without killing your crop and increasing its yield due to less competition from weeds. Unhealthy, as you end up with more herbicide on your food.
GM pesticide exuding [sic] crops (quite a different thing) mean you can avoid the need to apply pesticide, as the plant is producing the pseticide [sic] itself. Unhealthy, as the plant continues to produce the chemical throughout its lifecycle [sic], right up to harvest time. Result: lots of pesticide on your plate. Yum.
Whilst I don't condone eco terrorism [sic], I think informed debate is vital. There are very real concerns about GM foods, and there are genuine reasons you might not want them. None of these reasons are mentioned in your article.
As to biotech leading to greater herbicide use, wrong again. Field trials have shown greatly reduced herbicide use with herbicide resistant crops. Why? Because the spraying is done extremely early in the growing cycle, thereby effectively eliminating the weeds at their most vulnerable stage. Normal herbicide use requires repeated spraying. The spraying with these herbicide-resistant crops is also so early that there are literally months for all residues to be completely washed off and away from the food plants. That makes you wrong a third time.
Yes, herbicides are unhealthy if you happen to be a weed. Since I've never meet a weed – nor any type of plant for that matter – that can send an e-mail, I'll have to presume otherwise.
Finally, if by your concluding remark you meant I didn't mention YOUR concerns in my article, there just might be a good reason for that.
I am curious about who is paying you to write the slanted, biased tripe you call reportage.
It is clear from your sarcastic and skeptical (ie. [sic] mean-spirited attacks) on Eptstein [sic] that you are bought off by the big money interests who are very interested in having people like Epstein appear foolish.
Sorry, you didn't convince me.
I have most certainly looked at Epstein's web site; indeed, without that source I couldn't have done justice to him and his whacked-out claims that get disproved every time you turn around. If Sam Epstein tells you it's sunny and bright out, you'd better bring a good umbrella with galoshes. Maybe, just maybe, that's why, as I noted in the very piece you're criticizing, the American Association of Cancer Researchers ranked him dead last out of ten cancer doctors and why they ranked his antithesis, Bruce Ames, first. Maybe it's why Ames recently won the National Medal of Science, though at one time he was beloved by people like you because he, too, was convinced that cancer is essentially a man-made disease.
It's clear from your utterly ignorant defense of this quack doctor that whatever InBalance is, it's being bought off by looney interests who are interested in desperately trying to make people like Epstein look like anything but the paranoid conspiracy-theorist he is.
You obviously have very little respect for the real men and women who actually serve and protect this country. The Wall Street Journal will get many complaints about your article. Your brand of pseudo journalism [sic] is pathetic and you really should sign your stories with just your initials. What were your parents thinking........?
By the way, your brand of pseudo-e-mails is pathetic.
Message text written by INTERNET:sioux@[omitted]
Mr. Fumento,
Love,
Introduction to Hate Mail and Other Hate Mail Volumes
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But in the Winter, 2000, issue, I found it disconcerting to see what appeared to be inconsistent [sic] data given in one article, and a seriously incorrect comment stated as fact, in another – which brings ALL of the information by those authors, at the least, into question:
Hey Jim,
Bypassing the quibble about whether or not nonmedical, lay readers would or would not assume that "AIDS cases" means the same thing as "AIDS infections" – I've asked a group of sex-information counselors for their thoughts on the matter, and will respond later.
hey dik hed,yor an english major 2. kan u kount 2 3. eye no ware u liv. r u reddi,wiling and able? go suk on a pus sandwitch.hahahahahahahaha phuck u phat boi.
You seem not to have done any research into the effect of raising children of one race in a world where they are only exposed to movies portraying characters not of their race. You seem to be of the typical understanding that when all the characters (or all the desirable characters) in children's films and fairytale books are white, that’s ok because then EVERYONE can relate to them; whereas, movies portaying [sic] no whites and only characters of color are narrow-minded and inaccessible to any but those in the specific race indicated.
You say what you must "to make you feel good". I've never heard of someone like you, well maybe Hitler? Your opinion is all one sided, you stand alone. You say you served in the military, you disgrace the military with your one-sided views. If you can live with it, than I guess I can too. I will not bother you any more, I don't want to waste my time on your nonsense anymore. Everyone has their opinion, yours DOESN'T count!!!
unit is all about, you should do some research prior to replying in such a negative manner. Simple facts say that we are basically being experimented on with different inoculations. I am to [sic] tired to get into detail about this right now but if you would like I will send you some info. In closing I would like to say that most of the people in the military that are getting out because of the current policies in regard to inoculations are not cowards or brownies [sic], they are just sick of being treated like guinea pigs. Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
What you need to do, is start taking the shots and the pills they gave us in the gulf and we will see how you feel a few year down the road. All we were was, Human Guinea Pigs Used for Involuntary Experiments for our goverment [sic]. Who have they tested these shots on to say that us [sic] vets are not getting sick, I would like to know. And you people who think it’s a joke, well all i [sic] got to say [sic] try the shot and pills, DAM [Hoover dam? Aswan dam?] we did. I had a heart-attack [sic] at 39 and i [sic] do feel its [sic] from what they gave us in the gulf. You know it don't
feel good feeling like shit after the gulf and before that feeling real good.
Dear Michael:
A petri dish does not have immune responses. A symptom is an immune response. If your immune system shut [sic] down, you would have no symptoms. This is the condition that the medical community calls health. There are people with t. pallidum in their blood who are asymptomatic. But there are no people with raised levels of bromide in their blood who are asymptomatic. In a study of syphilis patients, 3 of 11 had no sign of t.pallidum. The spirochette [sic] lives in the soil. You can get it from breathing, (looks like tb [sic]), you can ingest it, (ulcers), inoculation [sic], body fluids, dust in the moisture in your eyes. It is not necessarily an std [sic]. Yaws is non-venereal syph. It's been found in the colon of infants. So what? [Good question!] Look at bromide. Your body cannot excrete bromide in it's [sic] pure form. It has to bind with calcium. Or be flushed out with salt. The three main symptoms of bromide poisoning are pneumonia, dementia, and skin lesions. Compare that to aids [sic] and syphilis. The diagnostic criteria for aids [sic] calls for the presence of t. pallidum. All early cases of syph. were in sailors or people who lived on the coast. The best source of bromide is sea water. It evaporates at 40 deg. F. I could go on and on. Bromide = GWS.
I am the spouse of a gulf war [sic] veteran. I live with a wonderful man that served in the gulf war [sic] and served to protect the freedom of a country he loves - the USA.
As to the burning semen, there have been some reports of this among Gulf vets but not nearly so many as sightings of an allegedly dead Elvis Presley eating his favorite peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich at the corner deli. Yet with neither has there been a single verified case. There have been some verified cases of non-Gulf vets whose sex partners had negative reactions to semen, such as redness, but these were allergic reactions. That would be an ailment of yours, not your husband's. But much more probably, your reaction is psychosomatic. That is, your husband's semen never bothered you until you heard that this was a symptom of GWS. Suddenly you "realized" it was burning you. So fancy that, you're a psychosomatic psychic!
I'm sure many a veteran has already blasted you over 
I read your article on 
I have asthma and had breathing problems and headaches from fragrances, cleaning products and paints a long time before I had ever heard of multiple chemical sensitivity. My doctor knows that this is not some kind of hallucination because he has a lot of patients who have similar problems.
I have just read your article refuting allegations of health problems surrounding the consumption of nutra sweet. [sic] Your article was a [sic] attack on individuals and pressure groups, but offered no scientific evidence to support your views.
My name is Megan [omitted]. I live in Maine. I recently read your article on global warming. It seems to me that you write the same way everyone else does – you write only your opinion. And, from what I can see, your opinion isn't well founded.
I would also like to know how you think GMOs [biotech crops] will need less pesticide. Are you referring to the pesticide that is present in the seeds of these plants. [Actually, the pesticidal genes are present throughout the plant; it would hardly make sense for them to just be in the seeds.] Is it less dangerous to add pesticide into the genetic makeup of the plant rather than spraying more as the crop grows? It is my understand that these GMOs are more tolerant of pesticides because it is in their genetic makeup and therefore farmers are able to add more to these genetically engineered crops than regular crops. The facts are that no one knows the answers to these questions. That’s right, no one knows like no one knew about DDT or PCB’s [sic]. All I know is that the so called [sic] environmental banditos are just bringing this question to light. What if they aren’t safe. Why are you so threatened by them just asking this simple question? Where does your paycheck come from?
I feel I should point out: herbicides are not a subgroup of pesticides. Pesticides kill slugs, catipillars [sic], locusts, etc. Herbicides kill weeds.
Look at Epstein's Cancer Prevention Coalition website, and look at the roster of board members of the American Cancer Society; it reads like the epitome of the power brokers who want to create a problem, then provide the solution, while all along collecting handsomely from the entire process. His figures on the percentage of $ spent by the ACA [he means "ACS," the American Cancer Society] on actual research and help for cancer patients is astonishing as is the exorbitant levels of reimbursement, company cars etc.
Mr. Fumento,
Michael,
