By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley for my Trial by Error project. If you appreciate my work and would like to help support it, here’s the link for this November’s campaign. As I pointed out last month when I reviewed a ridiculous study of “psychosomatic therapy” ...

*This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley for my Trial by Error project. If you appreciate my work and would like to help support it, here's the link for this November's campaign. By David Tuller, DrPH Lisa McCorkell is a co-founder of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, a group of ...

By David Tuller, DrPH As I have regularly noted, patients with diagnoses of functional neurological disorder (FND) experience tremendous suffering. A patient who goes by the moniker @FnDPortal has written a compelling and sometimes harrowing essay, Cadenza for Fractured Consciousness: A Personal History of the World’s Most Misunderstood Illness, that is ...

By David Tuller *This post has been corrected. In the first sentence, I originally wrote in error that the open letter was sent to Cochrane on September 4th, not on August 28th. On August 28th, the Science for ME (S4ME) forum sent an open letter to Cochrane’s editor-in-chief, Karla Soares-Weiser, ...

By David Tuller, DrPH *This post has been corrected. I initially wrote that the protocol did not appear to call for sub-group analyses, but in fact it did. The post also includes a passage that is from documentation in the supplemental material, but I had identified it as coming from ...