Author name: David Tuller

Trial By Error: A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards

By David Tuller, DrPH I am not sure what is going on at BMJ and why editors there seem incapable of acknowledging their flawed decision-making when it comes to two papers that should never have been accepted for publication. One violated BMJ€™s policy that all trials must be properly prospectively registered, with no participants recruited …

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Trial By Error: My Letter to MP Monaghan About BMJ Studies

By David Tuller, DrPH I have been trying to convince editors at two BMJ journals to take responsibility for poor decisions. Despite serious nudging and prodding, I have been unsuccessful. The two papers I have criticized as being fraught with methodological and/or ethical missteps are these: Clinical and cost-effectiveness of the Lightning Process in addition …

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Trial By Error: BMJ Still “Looking Into” Lightning Process Paper

By David Tuller, DrPH Two weeks ago I sent an e-mail to Sir Andrew Dillon and Professor Mark Baker alerting them of problems with the Lightning Process study published last year in Archives of Disease in Childhood. The two men are members of the NICE Guidance Executive and have a hand in the current process …

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Trial By Error: NICE’s Consideration of the Lightning Process

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this month, in advance of a stakeholder meeting, the U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence released a draft scoping report. The document outlined the issues slated to be addressed by the committee selected to develop the new guidance for the illness NICE now calls ME/CFS. (The 2007 guidance …

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