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 ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today, I e-mailed the following letter to Sue Paterson, University of Bristol's Director of Legal Services, to clarify whether or not I had been sent a cease and desist letter (to cease and desist what, exactly?). Professor Esther Crawley made this claim at her public ...

By David Tuller, DrPH At noon last Friday, at the University of Exeter's Mood Disorders Centre, Professor Esther Crawley gave a talk called What is new in paediatric CFS/ME research. When I saw a notice about the event the day before, I felt it might be my one chance to ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Something's weird over at BMJ Best Practice, a resource for clinical decision-making and an arm of the BMJ Publishing Group. Two days ago, Steven Lubet and I posted a blog praising the new guide written by Dr. James Baraniuk and apparently reviewed by Peter White, along ...

By Steven Lubet, JD, and David Tuller, DrPH Update: Nov 13th We wrote this post based on a version of the guide that appeared recently and had been updated on July 31, 2017. That version lists Peter White as among three peer-reviewers. As commenters pointed out soon after the post ...