Thank you, Ms. Adams. We greatly appreciate that.
Dr. McDiarmid, on behalf of the committee and our chairperson, Mr. Kerr, thank you very much for your testimony.
I'll take the chair's prerogative and ask two quick questions myself.
As you say, and we've heard from experts up here. most of the testing is done through urine testing. To rule out the concerns of DU, has there ever been a large autopsy study done on Gulf War veterans in the United States, Canada, or Europe regarding organ samples: the kidney, the liver, the lungs, the heart, etc.?
We've had expert after expert indicate that, in their opinion, DU is mostly likely not the cause of the problems facing our veterans. I'm not an expert, but it's rather disconcerting that after 23 years, with all these experts, we still don't know the cause of their symptoms.
Is that a normal concern in this regard, or am I just whistling Dixie?