By David Tuller, DrPH Jonathan Sterne, a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at Bristol University, is the corresponding author of Cochrane€™s revised €œrisk of bias€ tool, which BMJ published online on August 28th. Whatever the merits or defects of this revision, Professor Sterne€™s involvement as the first of more ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I have sent the following letter to Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, about Archives of Disease in Childhood's egregious decision to re-publish Bristol University's Lightning Process trial with the original findings intact. Given the Bristol team's flagrant methodological violations, the journal should have retracted ...

by David Tuller, DrPH Aura-reader and Tarot expert Phil Parker, also known as the founder of the Lightning Process, has posted a video on YouTube of an "ME/CFS success story." Without knowing anything about Amy's situation or medical history beyond what she shares, I have no reason to disbelieve her ...

By David Tuller, DrPH When I visited Melbourne in March of last year, I heard a lot about Dr Don Lewis, a local physician beloved by those with ME, or €œchronic fatigue,€ as Australian patients, scientists and clinicians routinely called the illness, to my dismay. At the time, Dr Lewis ...

By David Tuller, DrPH People who know little or nothing about the illness or cluster of illnesses variously called myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS/ME, and ME/CFS can’t seem to stop writing stupid and ill-informed stories about it. And Professor Michael Sharpe seems to blame “Americans”--rather than his own disastrous ...