By David Tuller, DrPH *This post has been corrected. I initially wrote that the protocol did not appear to call for sub-group analyses, but in fact it did. The post also includes a passage that is from documentation in the supplemental material, but I had identified it as coming from the protocol. I apologize for …
By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE: Physical therapist Zachary Grin, whose criticism prompted this follow-up post, has posted a response, so I have highlighted it right below this introduction. He continues to believe I misrepresented the study. I continue to disagree. Prognostic factors, as he notes, are baseline characteristics. (In this case, “baseline” means mid-illness, so …
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research has just published a paper called “The Impact of Depression, Anxiety and Personality Disorders on the Outcome of Patients with Functional Limb Weakness – Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.” As I have previously noted, the journal is something of a house organ for seriously flawed research from …
By David Tuller, DrPH I have slammed a recent Dutch study, Kuut et al, that investigated CBT for fatigue after an acute bout of COVID-19. The study, “Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” nicknamed ReCOVer, was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a well-regarded journal, …
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By David Tuller, DrPH It is extremely dispiriting to have to respond to yet another wail of desperation from psychologizing dead-enders who have lost control of the narrative over the nature and treatment of ME/CFS and long Covid. This most recent screed, published last month in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, has been …
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By David Tuller, DrPH The administrators of a controversial study of the Lightning Process currently being conducted in Norway have ejected a participant who expressed critical views about the biopsychosocial approach to ME, according to MELivet [MELife], Nina Steinkopf’s invaluable blog. This decision appears to be an acknowledgement that the intervention only works if you …
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