David Tuller

Trial By Error: The Contentless “Editor’s Note” About the Lightning Process Trial

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I noticed that Nick Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, had appended an "editor's note" to the Lightning Process study on June 19th. The note is stunningly inadequate. Here it is: This study was published online in Archives of Disease in ...

Trial By Error: My Letter to Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today, I e-mailed the following letter to the members of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, which has been investigating issues of scientific and research integrity. I thought it would be a good idea to make sure they knew that this quality appeared ...

Trial By Error: Waiting for Godlee

By David Tuller, DrPH This morning I sent another letter to Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief at The BMJ and editorial director at BMJ. Hopefully she will take action soon on the two pediatric papers whose publication has demonstrated that something is seriously amiss at the journals under her stewardship, at least ...

Trial By Error: Yet Another Appeal to The Lancet, With More On Board

By David Tuller, DrPH Last month, Professor Racaniello sent Lancet editor Richard Horton an open letter about the PACE trial signed by 94 scientists, clinicians, academics and other experts. The letter, a follow-up from one sent in 2016, cited the study's "unacceptable methodological lapses" and called for a fully independent ...

Trial By Error: Do All Clinical Trial Experts Love PACE?

By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Michael Sharpe blocked me on Twitter many weeks ago but apparently can't restrain himself from tweeting at me again. Maybe I’ve gotten under his skin. Yesterday he tweeted what must have felt to him like a slam-dunk question: He wanted to know how many clinical ...
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