ME/CFS

Trial By Error: What I’ve Read Recently–Yong, Jason, Prior & Lowenstein, & Eliot Smith

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By David Tuller, DrPH *October 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/33528 Almost seven years ago—in October, 2015–Virology Blog published my 15,000-word investigation of the arguably fraudulent PACE trial. (Thanks, Professor Racaniello!). At …

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Trial By Error: Research From GET/CBT Ideological Brigades Shows No Improvements in Work Status

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By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, Mark Vink, a Dutch physician with ME/CFS, and Friso Vink-Niese, an independent researcher, published a review of occupational outcomes among ME/CFS patients after treatment with either graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The results were not pretty. When viewed specifically through the perspective of employment status, …

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Trial By Error: Brain Publishes Letter About Flawed Study from NYU on ‘Psychogenic POTS’

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By David Tuller, DrPH When I have previously written about functional neurological disorder, or FND, I have gotten flack from FND patients. I understand from these exchanges that some have taken what I have written as criticizing patients with these diagnoses or dismissing their suffering. That is certainly not my intention. I know these conditions …

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Trial By Error: Psychological Medicine Rejects Letter About Chalder’s Bogus Review of CBT/GET Studies

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By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Trudie Chalder recently published a systematic review of CBT and GET studies for “chronic fatigue syndrome” in the journal Psychological Medicine, which seems to publish anything from the CBT/GET ideological brigades, no matter how poorly conducted or reported. Not surprisingly, given its provenance, the review was a piece of crap, …

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Trial By Error: Journalist Ryan Prior Discusses His Upcoming Book on Long Covid, The Long Haul

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By David Tuller, DrPH CNN journalist Ryan Prior is the author of an upcoming book on long Covid called The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever. Ryan, who is 32, has struggled with ME/CFS for half of his life—he first got sick in October, …

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Trial By Error: My Exchange of Letters With Bristol About Professor Crawley’s Uncorrected Ethics Statements

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By David Tuller, DrPH I recently reported that seven papers from Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged pediatrician and grant magnet, do not appear to have been corrected, as requested almost three years ago by a report of an investigation into her work. The investigation was commissioned by Bristol along with the …

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