By David Tuller, DrPH This morning I sent the following e-mail to Kate Kelland, the Reuters reporter who wrote last week's story about horrible patients and horrible me, and about how all this horribleness is affecting Professor Michael Sharpe. I cc'd Professor Racaniello and the two Reuters editors listed on ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Matthew Hotopf is a professor of general medicine psychiatry at King's College London. He served as a peer-reviewer for a study by Bristol University investigators that was published in BMJ Open in 2011. The study involved whether school absences could be used to identify cases of ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Update: When I posted earlier today, I also meant to update what was happening with the exercise review. On March 8, Cochrane announced, through a notice appended to the review, that the authors would submit another revision in May. (Cochrane has already rejected a previous revision ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Over the years, I’ve slammed U.S. medical and health care institutions that have championed the GET/CBT treatment paradigm for the illness or cluster of illnesses variously known as ME, CFS, ME/CFS or CFS/ME. I have done this both before and after the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Boy, it’s hard to keep up with all the stupid studies coming out! But that’s no reason not to take a look at a couple of them. (In both cases, I'm just making a few comments. Much more could be said about each of these studies. ...