By David Tuller, DrPH On May 15th, I sent a letter to Dr Fiona Godlee, BMJ's editorial director, alerting her that a new review in Current Opinion in Pediatrics had highlighted the Lightning Process as an "effective" treatment, based on a flawed study in one of her journals--Archives of Disease ...

By David Tuller, DrPH This week I've been taking some days for family stuff. But I have a minor victory to report. After a series of e-mails with the British Journal of General Practice about a false statement concerning the cost of "medically unexplained symptoms" to the UK National Health ...

Update: May 23, 2019 I received a response today from Dr Terry Segal, the senior author of the review in Current Opinion in Pediatrics that claimed the Lightning Process had been shown to be "effective." Dr Segal was not responding to the e-mail I sent her directly last week but ...

By David Tuller, DrPH BMJ seems to be in a state of paralysis over what to do about the Lightning Process study. The fact that this study was cited positively last month in a major review of pediatric CFS/ME (as the review called the illness) raises the stakes all around. ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Two weeks ago, I exchanged e-mails with Professor Roger Jones, editor of the British Journal of General Practice. I asked him to correct a false statement in an editorial about the cost of so-called medically unexplained symptoms to the National Health Service. In response, he invited ...