Uncategorized

By David Tuller, DrPH SAME-DAY UPDATE: I have sent the University of Bristol’s FOI office a follow-up request. I cc’d Sue Paterson, the university’s director of legal services. Here’s what I wrote: Dear FOI Office (and Ms Paterson)– I appreciate the response to my questions from the above-referenced request. That request concerned the pediatric Lightning …

Trial By Error: FOI Response from Bristol about LP Study; Correction in BJGP about MUS Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH This week I raised concerns about a second systematic review that cited the dung heap known as the Lightning Process study, published by Archives of Disease in Childhood two years ago. This new review did not mention the paper’s egregious deficiencies. After the appearance in April of an earlier systematic review …

Trial By Error: An Update about the Pediatric MUS Systematic Review Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH In recent weeks, I have tried to bring attention to the troubling fact that a major systematic review of pediatric CFS/ME (as the authors called the illness) cited Bristol University€™s Lightning Process study as evidence that the intervention was effective. Now another systematic review, this one of mental health outcomes of …

Trial By Error: Another Review Mentions LP Study and Prompts More Letters Read More »

Note: On her blog, Occupy M.E., Jennie Spotila recently posted another one of her indispensable close readings of NIH spending figures. I am reposting this here with Jennie’s permission. ********** Another NIH Funding Fact-Check In April, NIH finally published their funding numbers for ME/CFS research in 2018. That means it is time for another fact-check …

Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila’s Latest NIH Funding Fact-Check Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE: Within an hour or two of writing to Bristol, I received a response from the university’s director of legal services. Here’s what she wrote: Dear Dr Tuller Thank you for your email. The Information Rights team is making good progress on clearing the back log, your FOI request is currently …

Trial by Error: A Letter to Bristol about my Recent FOI Request; Update Added Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH Alan Montgomery is a professor of medical statistics and clinical trials at the University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine. He is also the senior author of the Lightning Process study, which was published in 2017 in Archives of Disease in Childhood, a BMJ journal. I wrote him a letter in January …

Trial By Error: A Second Letter to LP Study’s Senior Author Read More »