Author name: David Tuller

By David Tuller, DrPH The draft of the new ME/CFS guidance from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is out–posted just after midnight, London time, on Tuesday, November 10. This is the headline: The draft represents a repudiation of the GET/CBT paradigm and the deconditioning hypothesis. Here are key take-aways: *Graded exercise …

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By David Tuller, DrPH I have often described the logic demonstrated by the biopsychosocial ideological brigades as Trumpian in nature. Like the fat loser about to be expelled from his big home in Washington, D.C., this cabal of British experts have long relied on €œalternative facts€, in their case to promote graded exercise therapy and …

Trial By Error: With Trump Out, Can GET/CBT Be Next? Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH UC Berkeley’s crowdfunding campaign ended successfully last Saturday–thanks, all!!–but I haven’t managed to get much done in the news-filled week since then. I was prepared to have to join the resistance in the hills around the Berkeley campus, but now that has become unnecessary. Whew! Now that I no longer have …

Trial By Error: My Predictions for NICE ME/CFS Guidance, Reprise Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH When last heard from, Terry Segal, a pediatrician at University College London, was the senior author of a 2019 review of pediatric treatments for what she and her colleagues called “CFS/ME.” The review was published in Current Opinion in Pediatrics, a high-impact journal. The abstract for the review singled out the …

Trial By Error: No Links Between “Parental Separation” and Kids’ ME Severity 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 and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 On October 20th, the British Association for CFS/ME issued a document titled €œPosition …

Trial By Error: The British Association for CFS/ME Switches Gears Read More »