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 …
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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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 …
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 …
By David Tuller, DrPH The new ME/CFS clinical guidance from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is finished, and is to be publicly released on August 18th. In the meantime, this final version has been sent to registered stakeholders, even as three of the 21 members of the committee responsible for …
By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE: August 4, 2021 Dr Villemarette-Pittman, the managing editor of Journal of the Neurological Sciences, has informed me that she has learned from Elsevier that a corrigendum has in fact been written and will be published in the near future. She also informed me that she plays no role in deciding …
