By David Tuller, DrPH This month, the U.K. organization currently assessing whether to update the clinical guidelines for the illness it calls CFS/ME is seeking input from stakeholders in the process. Unfortunately, that’s not good news, it’s bad news. Why? The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, is an independent body that …
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By David Tuller, DrPH This is the beginning of a new phase for Trial by Error. I initially assumed that my work on PACE and ME/CFS (or ME, or CFS/ME, or CFS) would be a one-off investigation, and then I’d move on to other projects. But after my 15,000-word series was posted on Virology Blog …
by Steven Lubet On 1 June 2017, Professor Michael Sharpe presented the Special Ethics Seminar at Oxford University’s St Cross College. In his posted abstract, he asserted that some areas of scholarship are politicised (U.K. spelling in original), including the role of psychiatric or psychological approaches in the treatment of ME/CFS patients. Sharpe also likened ME/CFS …
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By David Tuller, DrPH [June 30, 2017: This post has been corrected and revised.] Professor Peter White and colleagues have published yet another study in The Lancet promoting graded exercise as an appropriate intervention for the illness they refer to as chronic fatigue syndrome but that is more appropriately called myalgic encephalomyelitis. (Two compromise terms, …
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by David Tuller, DrPH [June 25, 2017: The last section of this post, about the PLoS One study, has been revised and corrected.] I have tip-toed around the question of research misconduct since I started my PACE investigation. In my long Virology Blog series in October 2015, I decided to document the trial’s extensive list …
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By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I e-mailed a letter to Sue Paterson, director of legal services at the University of Bristol, to express my concerns about Professor Esther Crawley’s false claim that I had libeled her in reporting on her research for Virology Blog. On Friday, I received a two-sentence response from Ms. Paterson. …
Trial by Error, Continued: University of Bristol Responds, Sort Of Read More »
