By David Tuller, DrPH Today I received an e-mail from Professor Roger Jones, editor of British Journal of General Practice. I've been nudging him to correct a false statement in a 2017 editorial about the cost of so-called "medically unexplained symptoms" to the UK National Health Service. The false statement ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today (Sunday, June 9th, in San Francisco), I sent the following e-mail to Professor Roger Jones, the editor of the British Journal of General Practice. I first wrote to Professor Jones in early May, seeking a correction to a 2017 editorial about the cost of ...

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 ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Fans of Bristol University's team of pediatric ME/CFS researchers could be forgiven if they hoped a recent citation of one of the group's most high-profile studies would help bolster its wobbling reputation. Yet the suggestion that the Lightning Process is an "effective" treatment for kids--highlighted in ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The recent publication of a review of pediatric "CFS/ME" that promoted the Lightning Process as "effective" has triggered renewed concern--well, ok, I've triggered much of that renewed concern--about the 2017 study on which this specious claim is based. That study, from an experienced team from Bristol ...