By David Tuller, DrPH I often find myself responding to crap studies--such as a Norwegian study called “Brief Outpatient Rehabilitation Program for Post–COVID-19 Condition: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” from Nerli et al., published last December by JAMA Network Open. The senior author was Professor Vegard Wyller, the dean of the ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I have recently written about a trial of an intervention for functional motor disorder (FMD) that had null results for its primary outcome—physical function as rated by the SF-36. The study--"Specialist Physiotherapy for functional motor disorder in England and Scotland (Physio4FMD): a pragmatic, multicentre, phase 3 ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In 2020, the CODES study of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, also known as dissociative seizures, reported null findings for its primary outcome—the number of seizures per month one year after the start of therapy. This was a disappointing result for an ambitious ...

By David Tuller, DrPH When it comes to treatments for ME/CFS, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has long endorsed the graded exercise therapy (GET)/cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach. Last April, the organization published an “updated” article in its Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions (HANDI) advocating “incremental physical activity” ...

By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding period at University of California, Berkeley. If you appreciate my work and would like to make a donation (tax-deductible to US taxpayers) to the university in support of my position, here’s the link: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/46120 Last week, the journal Annals of Clinical Microbiology and ...