Author name: David Tuller

By David Tuller, DrPH It is hard to know what to make of the news that a peer-reviewed journal has actually accepted a PACE-reunion paper from the three lead investigators, Professors Michael Sharpe, Trudie Chalder, and Peter White. Even more so for a paper titled–without irony, it seems–“Evidence based care for people with chronic fatigue …

Trial By Error: PACE Authors Now Blame “Misunderstandings” for GET/CBT Criticisms Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH Two days following a high-profile meeting with opponents and supporters of its new-but-still-unpublished ME/CFS guideline, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence announced on Wednesday that it plans to release the document next week. The decision comes after a powerful cabal of medical practitioners held the process hostage for …

Trial By Error: NICE Announces Upcoming Release of ME/CFS Guideline After Prolonged Hostage Drama Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH Two months ago, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) abruptly delayed publication of its new ME/CFS clinical guideline under fierce objections from the GET/CBT ideological brigades and their minions. Today (Monday, October 18th), the agency hosted a meeting to allow these powerful dissenters from some of the …

Trial By Error: Advocates Issue Hopeful Comments After NICE Pow-Wow on ME/CFS Guideline Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism at the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project with a donation to Berkeley (tax-deductible for US taxpayers), here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513 Two years ago, …

Trial By Error: North Bristol NHS Trust’s Biased Survey of Patients Attending “CFS/ME Specialist Services” Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH I wrote a post last month about the recent wave of Long Covid coverage, some of it excellent (The Atlantic) and some way over the edge in its assertions of psychogenic causation of symptoms (The American Spectator, Spiked). Then there was the seemingly sympathetic New Yorker article by a physician, with …

Trial By Error: Professor Lubet’s Take on The New Yorker’s Long Covid Article Read More »