ME/CFS

Trial By Error: Professor Chalder Reports CBT Does Not Work for Post-Stroke Fatigue, Calls for More Research

By David Tuller, DrPH Calling out a Trudie Chalder paper is way too easy. It’s also old hat for Virology Blog—going back to 2015 and my initial investigation into the now-discredited PACE trial, of which she was one of three lead investigators. She is a professor of “cognitive behavioural psychotherapy” at King’s College London, so …

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Trial By Error: A Conversation with Patient Advocate Adam “Beyonce Holes” Lowe

By David Tuller, DrPH Adam Lowe, known in some incarnations as Beyonce Holes, is a longtime ME/CFS patient and advocate in Manchester, England, served as a lay member of the committee that produced the new clinical guidance published last October by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (This conversation was a follow-up …

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Trial By Error: Mom Speaks Out About NHS “Abuse” of Daughter; Norway Approves Lightning Process Study

By David Tuller, DrPH On Monday, The Times (UK) published a story about a 17-year-old girl with ME who has experienced hospital treatment that her family has referred to as “neglect and abuse.”  The details are harrowing—but should not be unfamiliar to people aware of similar experiences reported by other teenagers with severe ME. Parents …

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Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open About Missing Peer Reviews for Crawley Paper

By David Tuller, DrPH I recently noted that BMJ Paediatrics Open did not publish the peer review history of a 2021 study from a team led by Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged pediatrician and grant magnet. The study (Clery et al) was titled “Qualitative study of the acceptability and feasibility of …

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Trial By Error: If Professor Crawley’s ACT Study Was Peer Reviewed, Where Are the Peer Reviews?

By David Tuller, DrPH Yesterday, I wrote a blog about a just-published but already out-dated conference abstract from a team led by Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged pediatrician and grant magnet. After I tweeted about it, I heard from Naomi Harvey, a zoologist, who said she’d written to BJPsychOpen about the …

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Trial By Error: Professor Crawley Promotes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for CBT Failures

By David Tuller, DrPH What is going on with Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged pediatrician and grant magnet? And why is she still disseminating misguided views about treatments for vulnerable children? Haven’t kids suffered enough from the discredited claims of the GET/CBT ideological brigades? Just last week, the East Kent Hospitals …

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