David Tuller
Trial by Error: FDA Approves Web-CBT for IBS; GET/CBT as Tomorrow’s “Rubbish”
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Mahana set to announce FDA approval for ineffective IBS program Earlier this year, I spent a lot of time blogging about the unethical and dishonest manner in which a San Francisco start-up called Mahana Therapeutics was promoting an eight-week web-based program of cognitive behavior therapy for ...
Trial By Error: Thoughts on The Observer, The Guardian, and Paradigm Shift
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this week, I blogged about a story in The Observer that provided an inaccurate description of what it called chronic fatigue syndrome. For much of the piece, the writer, Eleanor Morgan, offered a sympathetic portrait of people, including herself, experiencing prolonged symptoms after an acute ...
Trial By Error: The Observer Slips Up; ME Association Responds
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH News organizations continue to misrepresent ME (and its various iterations) in their coverage of what has come to be called long-Covid. A current UK example is Sunday's Observer article by writer Eleanor Morgan, who is experiencing prolonged symptoms since falling ill last spring. (It's on The ...
Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open about the CBT-Music Therapy Study
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH On November 12, I received my latest letter from BMJ's so-called research integrity office about the pile of potential research misconduct otherwise known as the pediatric study of cognitive behavior therapy and music therapy as a treatment for chronic fatigue after acute EBV. This study was ...
Trial By Error: Update on BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy Study (h/t Steinkopf and Tack)
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH I have written multiple posts this year about a Norwegian study of cognitive behavior therapy plus music therapy as a treatment for chronic fatigue after acute EBV infection (aka mononucleosis and glandular fever). The study, published in April by BMJ Paediatrics Open, was rife with methodological and ethical ...
