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Trial By Error: More Science-as-Promotion from the GET Campaigners

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By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Trudie Chalder, Professor Peter White and like-minded members of the CBT/GET ideological brigades have appeared desperate in the last year to promote their favored interventions, publishing one shoddy paper after another. This stream of sewage has seemed intended  to influence the new ME/CFS clinical guidelines that Britain’s National Institute for …

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Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila’s Annual Fact-Check of NIH Spending on ME/CFS Research

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By David Tuller, DrPH There is a lot going on in the ME and ME/CFS world that I don’t get around to. That’s why I’m always grateful that Jennie Spotila always deconstructs the numbers on the annual spending claims from the National Institutes of Health. Last month, on her blog Occupy M.E., Spotila submitted the …

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Trial By Error: While NICE Waffles, US Specialists Publish New Clinical Guidelines for ME/CFS

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By David Tuller, DrPH Two weeks ago, NICE abruptly announced that it was putting the brakes on publication of its new ME/CFS guidelines, a move precipitated by fierce opposition from key members of the GET/CBT ideological brigades in the British medical establishment. Then last week, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a well-known journal, published a different set …

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Trial By Error: A Letter Urging NICE to Publish ME/CFS Guideline Without Delay

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By David Tuller, DrPH This morning, I sent the following letter to Professor Gillian Leng, the chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. ********** Professor Gillian Leng CBEChief ExecutiveNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence Dear Professor Leng, Please find below a letter urging NICE to publish the new ME/CFS guideline, …

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Trial By Error: NICE Squares Off Against Royal College Bullies Over New ME/CFS Guidelines

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By David Tuller, DrPH For many years, campaigners for psycho-behavioral interventions for ME/CFS have accused patients who objected to the research as being anti-scientific zealots. It was always a ridiculous charge, but developments this week have made it clear, if there was any doubt, that these entitled bullies are the ones immune to the actual …

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Trial By Error: The Times Fact-Checks BMJ on NICE Committee; My Letter to BMJ’s Fiona Godlee

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By David Tuller, DrPH It is not often that a major news organization fact-checks BMJ, a leading medical publisher, in real time. But that’s what happened last week when The Times pushed back against biased BMJ reporting about the committee charged by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) with developing a …

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