By David Tuller, DrPH Since the emergence of the phenomenon now called long Covid (or Long COVID, depending on news organization), skeptics have been out in full force. Even as huge numbers of people experience a range of sequelae after a bout of Covid-19, some experts maintain that common non-specific ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last month, the journal Occupational Medicine published an innumerate article from Professor Trudie Chalder and several colleagues at King's College London, called "Chronic fatigue syndrome and occupational status: a retrospective longitudinal study." Professor Brian Hughes, a psychologist at National University of Ireland, Galway, and I alerted ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, Brian Hughes and I sent a letter to Occupational Medicine, which recently published yet another of Professor Trudie Chalder's awful papers. Among other problems, Professor Chalder and her four co-authors completely misstated their own findings in the text of the paper. We called for ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has a poor record when it comes to ME/CFS. It has a history of pushing the graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) approach outlined in the now-discredited PACE trial. These interventions were based on the notion ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Members of the CBT/GET ideological brigades produce a gusher of dreck, and I don't bother commenting on most of their work. Life's too short. So it can be easy to lose sight of how flawed and truly awful each individual paper can be. But even among ...