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On Ockham's Razor and Gulf Ills
The analytic instrument we feel most comfortable wielding, journalistically,
in exploring the cause of Gulf Syndrome is Ockham's Razor. It is named for,
but apparently was not quite explicitly stated in the writings of English
philosopher William of Ockham (circa 1300-1349). Also called the Principle
of Parsimony, it states that: "Entities are not to be multiplied beyond
necessity."
The me ....
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.... Vaccines
Several of these putative causes, such as oil-well fires, can be eliminated
if, as Katherine Leisure finds, some servicemen and women who suffer from
the syndrome were long gone from the Gulf before combat started and Iraq
fired the wells.
Per Ockham's Razor, we think infectious diseases is the simplest hypothesis
at the moment, and leishmaniasis the best candidate among them. If there is
more than one cause, which we doubt, researchers will have ....
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