By David Tuller, DrPH I have lately been focusing more time and posts on developments in the UK than in the US. I guess that's not too surprising. After all, this whole project began as an investigation of the PACE trial, conducted by British experts in British health care centers ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In February, I wrote a post tracking how a core finding from Bermingham et al, a 2010 study, has been misrepresented repeatedly in claims about the costs to the National Health Service of so-called medically unexplained symptoms.” The misrepresented finding has been cited by proponents of ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In multiple venues, Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham of Keele University has misstated the reported cost of so-called "medically unexplained symptoms" to the NHS. Professor Roger Jones, editor of the British Journal of General Practice, recently corrected such a misstatement in a 2017 editorial written by Professor Chew-Graham ...

By David Tuller, DrPH SAME-DAY UPDATE: I have sent the University of Bristol's FOI office a follow-up request. I cc'd Sue Paterson, the university's director of legal services. Here's what I wrote: Dear FOI Office (and Ms Paterson)-- I appreciate the response to my questions from the above-referenced request. That ...

By David Tuller, DrPH This week I raised concerns about a second systematic review that cited the dung heap known as the Lightning Process study, published by Archives of Disease in Childhood two years ago. This new review did not mention the paper's egregious deficiencies. After the appearance in April ...