June 2025

Trial By Error: Dutch Journalist Faces Off Against CBT/GET Ideologues

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By David Tuller, DrPH It began on May 30th with television, radio and online reports from Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), a major Dutch broadcasting organization. The package of stories focused on the potential harms of psycho-behavioral treatments for children with ME/CFS. In particular, it focused on the kind of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT, although rendered …

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Trial By Error: An Interview with Sjoerd Beentjes, Lead Author of Big Data Study on “Blood-Based Biomarkers” for ME/CFS

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By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine published a paper called “Replicated blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity,” from a team at the University of Edinburgh. (I wrote about it here.) According to a press release from the university, “The largest ever biological study of ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) …

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Trial By Error: Edinburgh Study Links ME/CFS to “Blood-Based Biomarkers”

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By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, a team from the University of Edinburgh released a pre-print called “Replicated blood-based biomarkers for myalgic encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity.” At the time, I posted an interview with the lead investigator, Chris Ponting, a professor of genetics at the university. The peer-reviewed version of the study has just …

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H5N1 in U.S. Dairy Cattle: An Unprecedented Event in the History of Virology

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by Fabrício Souza Campos  Fabrício Souza Campos is a virologist and professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He coordinates the Graduate Program in Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology and leads research on virus surveillance in wildlife and domestic animals, with a focus on zoonotic threats and One Health. He has …

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Trial By Error: Dr Rob Wüst on ME/CFS, Long Covid and Deconditioning

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By David Tuller. DrPH Proponents of psycho-behavioral interventions for ME/CFS and, more recently, Long Covid, have argued–unconvincingly and with a shortage of actual evidence–that the disabling symptoms can be attributed to the effects of deconditioning. Earlier today, I spoke with Dr Rob Wüst, an expert in muscle physiology and metabolism at Vrije [Free] University Amsterdam. …

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Trial By Error: Canadian GET/CBT Campaigners Publish Propaganda Cosplaying as Research on Twitter Trends

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By David Tuller, DrPH McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, seems to be Canada’s Ground Zero for psychosomatic theorizing. In March, 2021, a psychiatrist-in-training, Jeremy Devine, published an opinion in The Wall Street Journal titled “The Dubious Origins of Long Covid.” (I wrote about it here.) Devine cited the PACE trial favorably, as if its findings …

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