By David Tuller, DrPH As it turns out, the University of Bristol did complain about me to Berkeley. I found out recently that there has indeed been "private and confidential communication" at a "senior level," as Sue Paterson, Bristol's director of legal services, suggested in her thuggish letter to me ...

By David Tuller, DrPH On September 20, 2017, a BMJ Publishing Group journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood published the SMILE trial. This trial investigated an intervention called the Lightning Process as a treatment for kids with CFS/ME (as the study called the disease). The lead investigator was Professor Esther ...

By David Tuller, DrPH So let's talk about Professor Esther Crawley's SMILE trial, published in September by the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, one of the BMJ Publishing Group's titles. The study reported that a commercial intervention called the Lightning Process was an effective treatment for children with CFS/ME ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Well, last week was certainly exciting! As I wrote on Wednesday, I was planning to post about Professor Esther Crawley's SMILE trial. However, that plan changed when Sue Paterson, the University of Bristol's director of legal services, e-mailed me what I guess was supposed to be ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Update: About 20 minutes after posting this blog, I received the following communication from Ms. Paterson: Dear Dr Tuller Thank you for your email of 22 November. If by a 'cease and desist' letter you mean a letter threatening legal action if the recipient does not ...