David Tuller
Trial By Error: GETSET Study Reports Null Results for Self-Help Graded Exercise–but Declares Success Anyway
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research (JSR), an influential publication. recently published an article that made a crucial point, in clinical trials, subjective outcomes are at “a greater risk of bias due to any unblinding.” The article, which I wrote about here, was authored by the journal's ...
Trial By Error: Long COVID, the Long COVID Alliance, and ME International
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH The advent of Long COVID has brought an enormous amount of attention to the illness or cluster of illnesses collectively known these days as ME/CFS. That attention is not always positive, as we saw recently with a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that dismissed both ME/CFS ...
Trial By Error: More on that WSJ Opinion Piece; and Q-and-A with Author of this Week’s WSJ Rebuttal
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, The Wall Street Journal published a passionate but clueless opinion piece from a psychiatric resident at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. The author, Jeremy Devine, portrayed the entire category now being referred to as Long COVID as a fiction foisted on the world by ...
Trial By Error: Clueless Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Endorses PACE as the “Prevailing View” Among Docs
By David Tuller
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
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, ...
