By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkekely and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768(Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** In late August, I sent a letter to eClinicalMedicine, a Lancet journal, about an egregiously flawed paper called “Effects of therapeutic interventions …
By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkekely and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768(Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** The UK Medical Research Council recently awarded £800,000 over four years to PRIME, a partnership between Action For ME and the University …
By David Tuller, DrPH The other day, I posted yet another blog about Cochrane’s deeply flawed 2019 review of exercise therapy for what it called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and the organization’s decision last December to abandon a planned update. Specifically, I was commenting on a response from the review’s lead author, Lillebeth Larun, to …
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By David Tuller, DrPH Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, is a leading investigator into long Covid. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, to and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. She was one of …
By David Tuller, DrPH It’s hard to keep up with everything going on in this field these days. So I missed the fact that Lillebeth Larun, the lead author behind the deeply flawed Cochrane review of exercise therapies for what the organization then called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has concocted yet another unconvincing defense of …
By David Tuller, DrPH On Monday afternoon, a bunch of people in Terminal 4 at Heathrow, London’s biggest airport, reported feeling ill. The reports led to concerns about a possible toxic exposure, which triggered an evacuation and major flight delays. An initial search for dangerous substances found nothing. On Tuesday, The Guardian ran an article …
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