David Tuller
Trial By Error: Medical Societies and new Komaroff-Lipkin Paper Highlight Long COVID and ME/CFS Links
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH While some medical professionals argue that prolonged non-specific symptoms after acute COVID-19 are psychogenic and that "Long COVID" as a presumed clinical entity was concocted by a cabal of queers and feminists, others are getting on with efforts to disseminate more appropriate information to their colleagues. ...
Trial By Error: Some Lightning Process Updates
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH A Final Round in Norway Lightning Process supporters got some bad news recently when a Norwegian national research ethics panel rejected a proposed study because it was poorly designed and fraught with conflicts of interest, as I wrote about here. But that wasn't the end of ...
Trial By Error: Professor Steven Lubet on Misogyny, Homophobia and Long COVID Denialism
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH My friend and colleague Steven Lubet is a professor of law at Northwestern University. He and I have collaborated on a number of articles, including a response to Professor Michael Sharpe's views on so-called "medically unexplained symptoms" in the journal Medical Humanities and a piece on ...
Trial By Error: Professor White & Colleagues “Regret” Ignoring Null Results in GETSET Trial Follow-Up
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPHLast week, I wrote about the correction made to the "Highlights" section of the paper reporting the long-term follow-up results for the GETSET trial. (The trial was conducted by Professor Peter White, one of the three lead PACE investigators, and colleagues.) I noted that this correction was ...
Trial By Error: Quartet of Trials Reveals Limitations of CBT for “Medically Unexplained Symptoms”
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH A year ago, I wrote a post about how the biopsychosocial ideological brigades had completed a trifecta of major studies that investigated cognitive behavior therapy for a variety of so-called “medically unexplained symptoms” (MUS). As a group, the studies demonstrated the overall ineffectiveness of CBT as ...
