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Trial By Error: JAMA Touts Long COVID Exercise Trial with Clinically Insignificant Results; Most LC Exercise Trials Ignore PEM, Per Sick Times

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By David Tuller, DrPH In its current “Medical News in Brief” section, JAMA is touting and amplifying the questionable claims of a flawed trial to treat or prevent Long COVID published by one of the journals under its umbrella—JAMANetworkOpen. The JAMA headline: “Resistance Training Improves Long COVID Outcomes.” Technically, the headline is true. In the …

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Trial By Error: Another Exercise Trial with Clinically Insignificant Findings

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By David Tuller, DrPH A recent study from JAMA Network Open, called “Resistance Exercise Therapy After COVID-19 Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” demonstrates some of the flaws that so often mar papers in this field of research. The trial’s reported results do not warrant the optimistic conclusion that the intervention “may be a generalizable therapy …

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Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Ten Years of Trial By Error

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By David Tuller, DrPH Ten years ago this month, I launched Trial By Error with a 15,000-word investigation of the misbegotten and fraudulent PACE trial, which purported to prove that graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) could cure what they then called chronic fatigue syndrome. And what an amazing ride it’s been …

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Trial By Error: Dutch Paper on Medical Abuse of Kids Ignores NICE Guidance on ME/CFS-Related Safeguarding Issues

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By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkeley and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link. (Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** The journal Child Abuse & Neglect recently published a paper called “Characteristics of 86 families and 142 children diagnosed with Pediatric Condition …

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Trial By Error: Lancet Journal Agrees to Correct Seriously Flawed Paper on Long COVID Interventions

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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 …

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