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Trial By Error: Deja Vu All Over Again with Proposed Lightning Process Study in Norway

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By David Tuller, DrPH It’s déjà vu all over again in Norway with the Lightning Process (LP). Earlier this month, a national research ethics authority, NEM, postponed a decision on a proposed LP trial until at least June. The trial has already been approved by a regional committee. The NEM had been expected to decide …

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Trial By Error: An Innumerate Response from Chalder to Hughes-Tuller Comments on Bogus Data Analysis

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By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, King College London’s professor of cognitive behaviour therapy, Trudie Chalder, published another one of her extremely incompetent papers. This one is so statistically challenged as to be truly mind-boggling, even by Professor Chalder’s extremely low standards. A team of purportedly expert researchers has mangled descriptions of their own  data …

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Trial By Error: Speaker at CDC Event Promotes CBT and “Very Gradual” GET

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By David Tuller, DrPH The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a long history of missteps when it comes to the illness or cluster of illnesses currently called ME/CFS—as anyone who has read Osler’s Web knows. In the more recent past—2017–the agency dropped its unfortunate endorsement of the discredited GET/CBT treatment approach but …

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Trial By Error: An Interview With Mt Sinai’s David Putrino About Long Covid, ME/CFS, and Related Issues

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By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. (Clarification: He trained as a physical therapist in Australia and is not licensed to practice in New York.) He runs a research lab and a rehabilitation center that quickly became a magnet for patients grappling with …

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Trial By Error: Now a Scottish Long Covid Study Fails to Mention the Risk of Post-Exertional Malaise

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By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 And here’s another major trial designed by investigators who think that an exercise program might be the optimal strategy for treating …

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Trial By Error: Two Reports on the Financial Burden of Long Covid and Its Impact on ME/CFS Prevalence

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By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 It is clear that long Covid—however that term is defined–is having enormous impacts on employment, social benefits, disability insurance, and other …

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