By David Tuller, DrPH This is the beginning of a new phase for Trial by Error. I initially assumed that my work on PACE and ME/CFS (or ME, or CFS/ME, or CFS) would be a one-off investigation, and then I'd move on to other projects. But after my 15,000-word series ...

by Steven Lubet On 1 June 2017, Professor Michael Sharpe presented the Special Ethics Seminar at Oxford University's St Cross College. In his posted abstract, he asserted that some areas of scholarship are politicised (U.K. spelling in original), including the role of psychiatric or psychological approaches in the treatment of ...

By David Tuller, DrPH [June 30, 2017: This post has been corrected and revised.] Professor Peter White and colleagues have published yet another study in The Lancet promoting graded exercise as an appropriate intervention for the illness they refer to as chronic fatigue syndrome but that is more appropriately called ...

by David Tuller, DrPH [June 25, 2017: The last section of this post, about the PLoS One study, has been revised and corrected.] I have tip-toed around the question of research misconduct since I started my PACE investigation. In my long Virology Blog series in October 2015, I decided to ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I e-mailed a letter to Sue Paterson, director of legal services at the University of Bristol, to express my concerns about Professor Esther Crawley's false claim that I had libeled her in reporting on her research for Virology Blog. On Friday, I received a ...