By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Jonathan Edwards posted this essay a while ago on the Science For ME forum. I only noticed it recently. Professor Edwards, a retired rheumatologist from University College London, has played a key role n the last few years as an advocate for patients as well ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In July, I sent Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, a letter signed by 55 experts about her company's perplexing decision to republish the originally reported--and unreliable--findings from the trial of the Lightning Process. She did not respond. This morning I sent the letter again, ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Two weeks ago, I sent a letter to the University of Bristol in which I requested that it withdraw its complaints to Berkeley about my “actions and behaviour.” Not long afterwards, I was informed by my academic department that the Berkeley chancellor had received a note from ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last Tuesday, November 5th, I spoke in Newry, Northern Ireland, about that research study from Bristol University with a 3000-word "correction/clarification" now appended to it. The talk was called "The Lightning Process Trial: A Saga of Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Research--and Even Worse Editorial Decisions." The ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In an interesting and unexpected development in the ongoing saga of my dispute with the University of Bristol, the chief executive of the National Health Service's Health Research Authority sent a gracious note about my work to Carol Christ, the chancellor of the University of California, ...