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*October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 By David Tuller, DrPH Proponents of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for …

Trial By Error: That Royal Society of Medicine Webinar on Long-Covid Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH The US Centers for Disease Control held one of its occasional briefings for ME/CFS stakeholders last week. I was unfortunately busy during that time, but #MEAction has posted a useful account of what was discussed, which you can read here. The #MEAction account includes short, helpful descriptions of a number of …

Trial By Error: The CDC’s Stakeholder Meeting Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH And now Professor Sir Simon Wessely has popped up again to present more misinformation in a paper produced along with his longtime King’s College London colleague, Professor Trudie Chalder. I wrote about this paper last month, when it appeared in a pre-print version after having been accepted for publication by the …

Trial By Error: More CBT Research from Sir Simon and Professor Chalder, Part 2 Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH This morning (Wednesday) I gave an informal online talk about the piece of crap known as the PACE trial to a small group of UK doctors, researchers and others. The group had been pulled together by Paul Garner, a physician and professor of infectious diseases at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. …

Trial By Error: A Short Talk for UK Docs and Researchers Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH Doctors in UK urge caution on long-Covid exercise advice Despite BMJ’s current dereliction of key editorial oversight responsibilities, it has provided a forum for members of the medical community with Covid-19 and post-Covid symptoms to express their strong views. The reference to current dereliction of key editorial responsibilities involves a case …

Trial By Error: UK Docs Speak Up on Long-Covid; Mayo Shifts Gears (a Little) Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH It is clear that there will be much grappling going forward over the similarities and differences between long-Covid and ME (or CFS, or ME/CFS, or whatever this illness or cluster of illnesses is being called). The two entities overlap in some ways, but no one should conflate them. We are past …

Trial By Error: Some Stuff about Long-Covid, BMJ and ME Read More »