David Tuller

Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila’s Annual Review of NIH Funding

By David Tuller, DrPH Every year, Jennie Spotila posts her analysis of annual funding for ME from the US National Institutes of Health on her invaluable blog, Occupy M.E. (On the other hand, Occupy Me is a 16-minute gay drama from 2015 about an interlude between two guys. I have ...

Trial By Error: NICE Draft Rejects GET, Lightning Process, and CBT-As-Cure

By David Tuller, DrPH The draft of the new ME/CFS guidance from the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is out--posted just after midnight, London time, on Tuesday, November 10. This is the headline: The draft represents a repudiation of the GET/CBT paradigm and the deconditioning hypothesis. Here ...

Trial By Error: With Trump Out, Can GET/CBT Be Next?

By David Tuller, DrPH I have often described the logic demonstrated by the biopsychosocial ideological brigades as Trumpian in nature. Like the fat loser about to be expelled from his big home in Washington, D.C., this cabal of British experts have long relied on €œalternative facts€, in their case to ...

Trial By Error: My Predictions for NICE ME/CFS Guidance, Reprise

By David Tuller, DrPH UC Berkeley's crowdfunding campaign ended successfully last Saturday--thanks, all!!--but I haven't managed to get much done in the news-filled week since then. I was prepared to have to join the resistance in the hills around the Berkeley campus, but now that has become unnecessary. Whew! Now ...

Trial By Error: No Links Between “Parental Separation” and Kids’ ME Severity

By David Tuller, DrPH When last heard from, Terry Segal, a pediatrician at University College London, was the senior author of a 2019 review of pediatric treatments for what she and her colleagues called "CFS/ME." The review was published in Current Opinion in Pediatrics, a high-impact journal. The abstract for ...
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