David Tuller
Trial By Error: Some Thoughts About an Upcoming Article
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH *I have corrected the paragraph involving tweets to Sir Simon Wessely. See note at end of post. A major news organization is preparing to publish what seems to be a piece about me and my work. The piece also seems to be focusing on the narrative ...
Trial By Error: Bristol Investigating Crawley Papers
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH In the last year, I have raised multiple concerns about studies from the University of Bristol with the UK Health Research Authority, among others. The HRA is the National Health Service arm that oversees approvals for research in England; the agency's role is to ensure that ...
Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham About METRIC
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this evening, I sent the following e-mail to Carolyn Crew-Graham, a professor of general practice research at Keele University. Professor Chew-Graham is the lead author of METRIC, the atrocious online training course hailed last week by Steve Brine MP as addressing "misconceptions" about the illness ...
Trial By Error: Steve Brine’s Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Update on January 29: I love how patients keep me on my toes. A savvy reader pointed out to me today that even members of the GET/CBT ideological brigades have dropped the notion that attributing symptoms to a physical cause itself leads to a poor prognosis. ...
Trial By Error: Action For ME’s Employment Advice
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Action For ME is the largest charity for this disease in the UK. It is also the charity responsible for enabling the PACE trial through its unfortunate decision to work with the investigators to develop adaptive pacing therapy. This was a terrible idea from the start, ...