Author name: David Tuller

Trial By Error: Why Did the NIH List an Award for Research on Cancer-Related Fatigue in Its List of Spending on ME/CFS?

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By David Tuller, DrPH*April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project:  https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/37217 Each year, the US National Institutes of Health publishes its “estimates of funding for various research, condition, and disease categories.” These estimates …

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Trial By Error: Further Thoughts on that JAMA Network Open Article and Estimates of Long Covid Prevalence

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By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I wrote two posts–here and here–about a new Norwegian study in JAMA Network Open that was essentially designed not to find differences in the prevalence of prolonged symptoms in patients with and without coronavirus infection confirmed by PCR. The study reported that almost half of the sample in both …

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Trial By Error: What is Recovery Norway’s Role in the JAMA Network Open Study of Long Covid in Young People?

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By David Tuller, DrPH*April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project:  https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/37217 As I wrote earlier this week, a new study of adolescents and young adults from Norway, published by JAMA Network Open, …

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Trial By Error: New JAMA Article Seeks to Revive the Zombie Case Definition for CFS from 1994

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By David Tuller, DrPH The long Covid narrative seems to bounce back and forth with each new study or review documenting contrasting findings—evidence of serious pathophysiological anomalies among sub-sets of patients followed by data that appear to implicate psychological and/or emotional factors in the generation of reported symptoms. A new study in JAMA Network Open …

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Trial By Error: Why Are Exercise Studies for Long Covid Still Failing to Address PEM Adequately?

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By David Tuller, DrPH Note: I posted this on March 29th, and for some reason it disappeared from the site–so I am reposting it today. I have written previously about the issue of exercise studies for long Covid patients. As with the discredited PACE trial for the illness or cluster of illnesses currently being referred …

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Trial By Error: An Update on the Missing Ethics Corrections in Multiple Esther Crawley Papers

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By David Tuller, DrPH In 2019, the University of Bristol and the UK’s Health Research Authority issued a report about their joint investigation of 11 papers. The lead investigator of all 11 papers was Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol’s methodologically and ethically challenged pediatrician and grant queen. The report recommended that Professor Crawley correct the ethics …

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