David Tuller

Trial By Error: Another Exercise Trial with Clinically Insignificant Findings

By David Tuller, DrPH A recent study from JAMA Network Open, called “Resistance Exercise Therapy After COVID-19 Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” demonstrates some of the flaws that so often mar papers in this field of research. The trial’s reported results do not warrant the optimistic conclusion that the intervention ...

Trial By Error: A New Cookbook for People with Chronic Illness

By David Tuller, DrPH ADDED. A reader left this comment at the end of the post: "Thank you, David. Even all those details can’t convey how WONDERFUL this book is. I ordered multiple copies via Amazon and am giving them for holiday gifts – and not just to my friends ...

Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Ten Years of Trial By Error

By David Tuller, DrPH Ten years ago this month, I launched Trial By Error with a 15,000-word investigation of the misbegotten and fraudulent PACE trial, which purported to prove that graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) could cure what they then called chronic fatigue syndrome. And what ...

Trial By Error: Dutch Paper on Medical Abuse of Kids Ignores NICE Guidance on ME/CFS-Related Safeguarding Issues

By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkeley and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link. (Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** The journal Child Abuse & Neglect recently published a paper called “Characteristics of 86 families and 142 ...

Trial By Error: Lancet Journal Agrees to Correct Seriously Flawed Paper on Long COVID Interventions

By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkekely and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768(Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** In late August, I sent a letter to eClinicalMedicine, a Lancet journal, about an egregiously flawed paper ...
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