By David Tuller, DrPH This post is about a serious issue--ethical approval for research studies involving children. It is also about how powerful institutions, like leading medical journals, respond to concerns. But the story is really too long and complicated. I recommend it only for those following things pretty closely ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I wanted to post something this week, but not a whole long thing. So I thought I'd just post the top of what I'll post in full next week. This week ends the first half--six months!--of my crowdfunded project. Sometime soon I'll post something or other ...

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 ...