David Tuller

Trial By Error: The World According to Sharpe

*April is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism at the university's Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project with a donation to Berkeley (tax-deductible for US taxpayers), here's the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/25504 By David Tuller, ...

Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila Tracks Down–and Busts–an Old Tale About “Death Threats” from Patients

By David Tuller, DrPH In early 2011, the first report of the PACE results in The Lancet drew widespread criticism from patients and advocates. Later that year, stories about unhinged, anti-science patients harassing and threatening leading researchers in the field appeared in high-profile UK outlets like BMJ and The Times. ...

Trial By Error: A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Error in MUS Paper from Sir Simon and Colleagues

By David Tuller, DrPH I have previously documented that some of the leading experts in “medically unexplained symptoms” (MUS) have regularly misstated a core finding from a seminal study in their field. The study, "The cost of somatisation among the working-age population in England for the year 2008–2009”, was published ...

Trial By Error: Journal of Health Psychology Publishes Hughes-Tuller Critique of Wessely-Chalder CBT Claims

By David Tuller, DrPH What kind of researchers would publish obviously misleading figures about their favorite intervention in a study abstract? And who would make causal claims in a paper while simultaneously pointing out that the study design does not allow for causal claims? Well, it seems Professor Sir Wessely ...

Trial By Error: Prof Sharpe Fact-Checks Comment on Blog About How George Monbiot Is Causing Long COVID

By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism at the university's Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project with a donation to Berkeley (tax-deductible for US taxpayers), here's the ...
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