By David Tuller, DrPH Someone uninformed or stupid or maybe both decided to invite Danish physician Per Fink to present at a conference on so-called psychosomatic medicine being held this weekend at Columbia University. Fink, I won’t dignify him by using an honorific–is a scary guy. He should never have been provided with this prestigious …
By David Tuller, DrPH Since 2008, the English arm of the National Health Service has been rolling out a program called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, or IAPT. More than 900,000 people now receive IAPT services annually. This program arose out of the notion that many people were suffering from untreated depression, anxiety and other psychiatric …
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By David Tuller, DrPH I sent the following e-mail today to Dr Nick Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the journal that published the Lightning Process study a year ago. I cc’d Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, which publishes Archives. **********
By David Tuller, DrPH So I attended the CFS/ME Research Collaborative conference two weeks ago in Bristol. The two-day event was a refreshingly PACE-free zone–as far as I could tell, I was the only person who mentioned that piece of crap in public comments. (Although I wasn€™t on the schedule, CMRC vice chair Chris Ponting, …
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By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, more than three dozen advocates for people with chronic illnesses signed an open letter to Netflix protesting Afflicted, a multi-part documentary. The open letter was posted on Medium. I have posted it below. (I have added my name to the list of signatories; I meant to sign on beforehand …
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By David Tuller, DrPH When I first began examining the PACE trial in detail, I turned to clinical trial experts to vet my concerns. One of them was biostatistician Bruce Levin, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, to whom I was referred by a mutual colleague. After he reviewed the trial, …
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