David Tuller

Trial By Error: Clueless Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Endorses PACE as the “Prevailing View” Among Docs

By David Tuller, DrPH Long Covid stories and commentaries seem to be everywhere, too many to keep track of! This week, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece about long Covid and ME/CFS that is breathtakingly ill-informed, and more importantly, just wrong. Beyond that, it showed remarkable disrespect for ...

Trial By Error: Another Excellent Read on Long Covid, ME/CFS and Medically Unexplained Symptoms

By David Tuller, DrPH In a post earlier this week, I noted some differences in the tenor of the debate over Long Covid in the US and UK. Yesterday, another excellent and in-depth piece on the issues appeared on the domestic front, this time in VICE. The author, Alan Levinovitz, ...

Trial By Error: Biopsychosocial Brigades Seek Traction with Long Covid

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, two major articles on long Covid appeared in well-known US publications, one in the Atlantic, the other in Vox. Like the New York Times Magazine article that ran in January, these stories addressed with nuance the complex and unclear relationship between the varieties of ...

Trial By Error: Psychosomatics Journal Linked to PACE Authors Highlights Bias from Subjective Outcome

By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Pyschosomatic Research, a high-profile publication from Elsevier, has recently published an article relevant to long-standing arguments about trials that are both unblinded and reliant on subjective outcomes--like, say, the PACE study and related research into psycho-behavioral treatments for ME/CFS. This specific question--how to ...

Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Tracie White, author of The Puzzle Solver

By David Tuller, DrPH Tracie White, a science writer at Stanford University, first stumbled across the story of Whitney Dafoe as an assignment from one of her editors. That initial encounter ultimately turned into The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son, an ...
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