Author name: David Tuller

Trial By Error: Australian Survey Seeks Input for New ME/CFS Guidelines

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By David Tuller, DrPH Australia’s National Medical Health and Research Council (NMHRC) recently released what it calls a “scoping survey” as a first step in developing new clinical practice guidelines for ME/CFS. The survey was posted online on February 21st; the deadline for responding is April 27th. The plan calls for the new guidelines to …

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Trial By Error: New Hyped-Up Lightning Process Study from New Zealand

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By David Tuller, DrPH In January, the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care published a paper from New Zealand called “An audit of 12 cases of long COVID following the lightning process intervention examining benefits and harms.” It reads like a Lightning Process marketing effort cosplaying as an academic study. As a reminder, the …

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Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently…

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By David Tuller, DrPH With so many people impacted by Long Covid and ME/CFS, it is impossible to keep up with all the non-academic articles, posts, and commentaries out there. The gusher of material is really overwhelming. Given that, sometimes it seems worthwhile to highlight a few things worth reading. (Note: Recommending something as worth …

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Trial By Error: Trudie Chalder Is Co-Author on Another Bad Exercise Paper

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By David Tuller, DrPH It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least universally acknowledged by smart researchers), that if the list of authors on an article includes Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s mathematically and factually challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy, then the article in question should most assuredly be expected to be short on, or utterly devoid of, …

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Trial By Error: A Letter to Cochrane’s Editor-in-Chief

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By David Tuller, DrPH This morning, I e-mailed the following letter to Dr Karla Soares-Weiser, Cochrane’s editor-in-chief, about the decision to abandon a planned update of a review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS. (I cc’d Toby Lasserson, Cochrane’s deputy editor-in-chief.) That decision was made public in an abrupt announcement dumped on the patient community right …

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Trial By Error: GET Ideologues Try to Rebut Muscle Abnormality Study–and Fail

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By David Tuller, DrPH It is a pleasure to read a pointed and effective smack-down of an ill-informed argument, especially when the argument is pushing the graded exercise therapy/cognitive behavior therapy (GET/CBT) paradigm for ME/CFS, Long Covid and related illnesses. That’s how I felt about the excellent rebuttal this week to a letter from some …

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