By David Tuller, DrPH On June 17th, Cochrane announced that it had received a revision of a much-contested review of exercise therapy for treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (as the organization has long called the illness or cluster of illnesses also referred to as myalgic encephalomyelitis, CFS/ME, and ME/CFS). In ...

By David Tuller, DrPH And now again with BMJ Open. I have written many, many posts about my efforts to get this supposedly reputable journal to acknowledge the issues with Professor Crawley's school absence study. I won't recap that unfortunate matter in this post, except to note that I am ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In its efforts to save money, the National Health Service has been expanding the program known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) by encouraging physicians to refer over all those with so-called "medically unexplained symptoms" (MUS). Under IAPT, the illness referred to as "chronic fatigue ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I have posted a batch of letters about the Lightning Process study that have been sent to Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, here, here and here. I have been impressed with how direct these scientists and clinicians have been in expressing their dismay at ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The trickle of letters from top experts to Dr Fiona Godlee about BMJ's decision to republish Professor Esther Crawley's Lightning Process study continues. The letters excoriate BMJ's actions in this matter and urge Dr Godlee to retract the dung-heap otherwise known as "Clinical and cost-effectiveness of ...