David Tuller
Trial By Error: An Open Letter to The Lancet, Two Years On
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH This morning, Professor Racaniello sent the following e-mail to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet. The subject heading: "Another open letter about the PACE trial." He cc'd the three lead PACE investigators and the public relations office at Queen Mary University of London. Virology Blog's previous ...
Trial By Error: Sir Simon Scores an Own Goal
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Update: 6/26/18 When I wrote last week in the post below about Mike Godwin's intervention into the PACE debate, I mentioned that "a PACE critic" triggered the events by tweeting a reference to "the banality of evil”--the famous Hannah Arendt phrase that emerged out of her ...
Trial By Error: A Letter to NICE About the IAPT Program
By David Tuller
This morning I sent the following e-mail to key NICE executives involved in the effort to overhaul the clinical guidance for ME/CFS. I cc'd several stakeholders in the process as well. ********** Dear Sir Andrew and Professor Baker (and others), In an e-mail to Sir Andrew last year, I posed ...
Trial By Error: A Curriculum for Treating CFS with CBT
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Ten years ago, the National Health Service began rolling out across England a program called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, or IAPT. This program arose out of the notion that many people were suffering from untreated depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders. In parallel with that, ...
Trial By Error: More Letters About BMJ’s Flawed Pediatric Studies
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH This morning I sent three more e-mails alerting interested parties to my concerns about two BMJ studies of children with ME/CFS. When it comes to research, kids are already a vulnerable population, and those with a stigmatizing illness even more so. That’s why it is both ...
