By David Tuller, DrPH I have been focused lately on the continuing saga of the hijacked-and-still-unpublished ME/CFS clinical guidelines (HSUME/CFSCG) from Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The fate of the HSUME/CFSCG will apparently be addressed at an October so-called “roundtable” meeting of NICE and representatives from relevant interest groups. (I’m not …
By David Tuller, DrPH Two weeks ago, NICE abruptly announced that it was putting the brakes on publication of its new ME/CFS guidelines, a move precipitated by fierce opposition from key members of the GET/CBT ideological brigades in the British medical establishment. Then last week, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a well-known journal, published a different set …
By David Tuller, DrPH This morning, I sent the following letter to Professor Gillian Leng, the chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. ********** Professor Gillian Leng CBEChief ExecutiveNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence Dear Professor Leng, Please find below a letter urging NICE to publish the new ME/CFS guideline, …
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The US Centers for Disease Control have concluded that a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be needed for protection against disease, but the science says otherwise. A review of the immune responses to infection will help explain why vaccine boosters are not needed. The graph below shows the relative concentrations of antibody and T …
By David Tuller, DrPH For many years, campaigners for psycho-behavioral interventions for ME/CFS have accused patients who objected to the research as being anti-scientific zealots. It was always a ridiculous charge, but developments this week have made it clear, if there was any doubt, that these entitled bullies are the ones immune to the actual …
By David Tuller, DrPH It is not often that a major news organization fact-checks BMJ, a leading medical publisher, in real time. But that’s what happened last week when The Times pushed back against biased BMJ reporting about the committee charged by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) with developing a …
