By David Tuller, DrPH As post-covid syndrome has emerged as a major public health concern, so has the likelihood that members of the biopsychosocial ideological brigades will roll out their typical interventions for the "long-haulers"--patients suffering from profound exhaustion and other symptoms for many weeks and months after getting infected ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Note: The DecodeME team held a Facebook Q-and-A this week. If you want more information about the study, you can watch the video here. Two major UK government funding agencies recently announced grants totalling £3.2 million to support a major genetics study of ME. Whatever the ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I have written two more letters and have posted them below. The first letter is a nudge to BMJ's research integrity department, which missed a deadline this week for providing me with an update on the status of that music therapy study from Norway. You know, ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In late December, the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology published an article called “Prevalence and treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and co-morbid severe health anxiety.” This paper, from investigators at the University of Bath and Oxford University, actually included two separate studies documenting ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I'm always highlighting dodgy research from the CBT/GET ideological brigades. These studies are fun to tear apart (metaphorically and sometimes literally), but it's also nice to be able to recommend some decent research. Below are a few recent papers that I have found to be of ...