By David Tuller, DrPH I have spent two weeks hammering the CFS/ME Research Collaborative about Renal-gate, that is, vice-chair Esther Crawley's recent lecture at a conference of kidney disease experts, in which she falsely accused me of writing libellous blogs. The CMRC's chair, Stephen Holgate, recently assured me that Dr. ...

By David Tuller, DrPH David Tuller is academic coordinator of the concurrent masters degree program in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In my initial story on Virology Blog, I charged the PACE investigators with violating the Declaration of Helsinki, developed in the 1950s by the ...

By David Tuller, DrPH David Tuller is academic coordinator of the concurrent masters degree program in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, the BMJ published the results of the Fatigue Intervention by Nurses Evaluation, or FINE. The investigators for this companion trial to PACE, ...

By David Tuller, DrPH David Tuller is academic coordinator of the concurrent masters degree program in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. First, some comments: When Virology Blog posted my very, very, very long investigation of the PACE trial two weeks ago, I hoped that the ...

David Tuller's three-installment investigation of the PACE trial for chronic fatigue syndrome, “Trial By Error,” has received enormous attention. Although the PACE investigators declined David's efforts to interview them, they have now requested the right to reply. Today, virology blog posts their response to David's story, and below, his response ...