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Trial By Error: Oxford Scholars Blame Biomedical Research Hegemony for Fibromyalgia “Chronicity Rhetoric”

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By David Tuller, DrPH Social Science & Medicine (SSM) is a prominent interdisciplinary journal that publishes social science research related to health. A recently published SSM paper is called “Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery: a qualitative, ethnographic study of fibromyalgia care.” Part of a larger, multi-partner, Oxford-based project called Patient-centred …

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Trial By Error: Study Finds Signs of “Functional Limb Weakness” in Patients Not Reporting Actual Limb Weakness

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By David Tuller, DrPH *NOTE: Kim, an FND patient and advocate, has left an extensive set of criticisms in the comments. I urge those interested in this debate to read them. A recently published study about functional neurological disorder (FND) has reported some perplexing data. Of almost 300 patients diagnosed with Long Covid, 100 were …

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Trial By Error: Interview with Dutch Journalist Sander Zurhake

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By David Tuller, DrPH Sander Zurhake is an investigative reporter for Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), a major Dutch broadcasting organization. On May 30th, NOS released television, radio and online reports about the potential harms of psycho-behavioral treatments for children with ME/CFS. In particular, the stories focused on the kind of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT, although …

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Trial By Error: Updated Medical Textbook Still Promotes Biopsychosocial Ideology

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By David Tuller, DrPH For decades, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine has been a standard textbook for medical education around the world. Last month, Elsevier pubished the 11th edition. The miniscule section on what it calls “chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy” is pathetic. This section is in a chapter called “General Hospital Psychiatry,” promotes “psychological symptoms” …

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Trial By Error: Dutch Journalist Faces Off Against CBT/GET Ideologues

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By David Tuller, DrPH It began on May 30th with television, radio and online reports from Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), a major Dutch broadcasting organization. The package of stories focused on the potential harms of psycho-behavioral treatments for children with ME/CFS. In particular, it focused on the kind of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT, although rendered …

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Trial By Error: An Interview with Sjoerd Beentjes, Lead Author of Big Data Study on “Blood-Based Biomarkers” for ME/CFS

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By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine published a paper called “Replicated blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity,” from a team at the University of Edinburgh. (I wrote about it here.) According to a press release from the university, “The largest ever biological study of ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) …

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