By David Tuller, DrPH What kind of researchers would publish obviously misleading figures about their favorite intervention in a study abstract? And who would make causal claims in a paper while simultaneously pointing out that the study design does not allow for causal claims? Well, it seems Professor Sir Wessely ...

By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism at the university's Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project with a donation to Berkeley (tax-deductible for US taxpayers), here's the ...

By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university's Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here's the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/25504 In a remarkable display of--well, I'm not even ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I've already posted my thoughts about the ill-informed opinion piece by a psychiatrist-in-training that The Wall Street Journal published two weeks ago. The author's dismissal of the Long COVID phenomenon as a result of delusions and mental illness elicited a lot of sharp responses online. The ...

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 ...