Uncategorized

Calls for Retraction of Absurd “Effort Preference” Claims from NIH Study

3 Comments / Uncategorized / By

By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers) here. In February, the journal Nature Communications published the US National Institutes of Health’s long-awaited paper, “Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue …

Calls for Retraction of Absurd “Effort Preference” Claims from NIH Study Read More »

Trial By Error: Extensive News Coverage of Exeter Coroner’s “Report to Prevent Future Deaths”

3 Comments / Uncategorized / By

By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers) here. The case of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died in 2021 of malnutrition from severe ME after three hospitalizations failed to halt her …

Trial By Error: Extensive News Coverage of Exeter Coroner’s “Report to Prevent Future Deaths” Read More »

Trial By Error: Coroner in Boothby O’Neill Inquest Issues Report to Prevent Future Deaths

3 Comments / Uncategorized / By

By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to the university (tax-deductible for US taxpayers) here. ********** For two weeks in late July and early August, His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner Deborah Archer heard testimony regarding the death …

Trial By Error: Coroner in Boothby O’Neill Inquest Issues Report to Prevent Future Deaths Read More »

Trial By Error: Interview with Dr Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins about “Living with Orthostatic Intolerance”

3 Comments / Uncategorized / By

By David Tuller, DrPH Dr Peter Rowe is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of the Chronic Fatigue Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. As an expert on orthostatic intolerance, a common component of ME/CFS, Long Covid and related illnesses, he has recently authored “Living Well with …

Trial By Error: Interview with Dr Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins about “Living with Orthostatic Intolerance” Read More »

Trial By Error: Norwegian Tabloid Covers Stupid Gulf War Illness/PEM Study; My Letter to Journal Editor on Bogus Claims

8 Comments / Uncategorized / By

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this month, I wrote a post about a new study asserting that “exercise does not cause post-exertional malaise in Veterans with Gulf War Illness.” As I explained, the research, led by experts from the University of Wisconsin and published by the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, made no sense. Although …

Trial By Error: Norwegian Tabloid Covers Stupid Gulf War Illness/PEM Study; My Letter to Journal Editor on Bogus Claims Read More »

Trial By Error: UK Health Care Professionals Appeal to Health Secretary for Quick Action on Poor ME Care

5 Comments / Uncategorized / By

By David Tuller, DrPH Tuesday, September 17th, was World Patient Safety Day. (I didn’t know that either.) In the UK, more than 200 physicians, nurses and other health care providers and professionals marked the occasion by issuing an appeal—in the form of a letter to Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care …

Trial By Error: UK Health Care Professionals Appeal to Health Secretary for Quick Action on Poor ME Care Read More »

Scroll to Top