David Tuller

Trial By Error: An Interview with Adam Lowe, a Member of the NICE Guideline Committee for ME/CFS

By David Tuller, DrPH Adam Lowe, a patient, was one of five lay people on the committee pulled together by Britain's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to work on the new ME/CFS guideline. He and I spoke recently on Zoom about his role in the process. https://youtu.be/yAe4k8KG-ng

Trial By Error: New Paper From PACE Authors Repeats Bogus Arguments and Defenses

By David Tuller, DrPH The October 29th publication of the new guideline for ME/CFS from Britain's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) represented an enormous and humiliating repudiation of the PACE trial and the many related studies of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) as ...

Trial By Error: Some National Health Service Branches Fail to Respond to New NICE Guidelines for ME/CFS

By David Tuller, DrPH In late October, the UK's National institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released its new ME/CFS guideline, which specifically recommend against graded exercise therapy (GET) and a specialized form of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Last week, I wrote about how King's College London continues to ...

Trial By Error: Is Something Shifting at the Science Media Centre?

By David Tuller, DrPH For years, London's Science Media Centre has fiercely promoted research into graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for the illness or cluster of illnesses variously referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephaloymyelitis, CFS/ME, ME/CFS, and other names. Some of the prominent experts ...

Trial By Error: Authors Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt and Nasim Marie Jafry Discuss Their Novels

By David Tuller, DrPH It is hard enough to write when you're feeling healthy. So I'm in awe of people who manage to write despite suffering from a debilitating chronic illness, especially one that messes around with cognitive functioning. That number includes some ME patients who have written novels. (I ...
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