By David Tuller, DrPH Last fall, Professor Sir Simon Wessely and Professor Trudie Chalder were among several co-authors of a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The study purported to prove that years of provision of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to patients with "chronic fatigue" ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Biopsychosocial Campaigners Target Long-Covid New papers from the biopsychosocial campaigners often provide opportunities to highlight unwarranted assertions, misleading use of data, and, in particular--associations interpreted as if they were causal relationships and not, well, associations. An article co-authored by Trudie Chalder, a professor of cognitive behavioural ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Three years ago, The New York Times' popular Modern Love column published a beautifully written tear-jerker by Jamison Hill--a former bodybuilder with ME. The column, "Love Means Never Having to Say...Anything," described in tender prose how two people with debilitating chronic illness were able to find ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Paul Garner, an infectious disease doctor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has had a rough time with long-Covid. He has written about his experiences in a series of compelling blog posts on BMJ's site. At first, he bonded with members of the ME/CFS ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Yesterday, I posted my exchange with a spokeswoman for Hennepin Healthcare about Thane Fredrickson, the ME/CFS patient who is under threat of involuntary psychiatric commitment. Today, Northwestern University law professor Steven Lubet, e-mailed her the following letter. ********** Dear Ms. Hill: I am a law professor ...