Author name: David Tuller

Trial By Error: Interview with Dutch Journalist Sander Zurhake

By David Tuller, DrPH Sander Zurhake is an investigative reporter for Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), a major Dutch broadcasting organization. On May 30th, NOS released television, radio and online reports about the potential harms of psycho-behavioral treatments for children with ME/CFS. In particular, the stories focused on the kind of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT, although …

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Trial By Error: Updated Medical Textbook Still Promotes Biopsychosocial Ideology

By David Tuller, DrPH For decades, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine has been a standard textbook for medical education around the world. Last month, Elsevier pubished the 11th edition. The miniscule section on what it calls “chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy” is pathetic. This section is in a chapter called “General Hospital Psychiatry,” promotes “psychological symptoms” …

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

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

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”

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

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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