Virology
TWiV Special: Trial by Error, Continued
By Vincent Racaniello | 05-31-2017 | This Week in Virology
David Tuller returns to discuss the continuing saga of the UK’s PACE trial for chronic fatigue syndrome, including the accusation that he is engaging in libelous blogging. You can find this TWiV Special at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. Click arrow to play Download TWiV Special (31 MB .mp3, 50 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!
TWiV 443: On a leaf, no one can hear you scream
By Vincent Racaniello | 05-28-2017 | This Week in Virology
The TWiVsters reveal the puppet master: an RNA virus injected with wasp eggs that paralyzes the ladybug so that she protects the cocoon until the adult emerges. You can find TWiV #443 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 443 (66 MB .mp3, 108 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!
Bodyguard manipulation by a virus
By Vincent Racaniello | 05-25-2017 | Basic virology, Information
Host behavior alteration by viruses is known to assist the development of another organism. An example is a parasitoid wasp that injects viruses along with eggs into a caterpillar. The viral genomes encode proteins that subvert the caterpillar immune response, allowing the wasp larva to develop. A similar strategy may enable safe development of a …
TWiV 442: The New York Tim
By Vincent Racaniello | 05-21-2017 | This Week in Virology
Freelance science journalist Tim Requarth joins the TWiVers to explain why scientists should stop thinking that explaining science will fix information illiteracy. You can find TWiV #442 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 442 (70 MB .mp3, 116 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!
Twenty-five lectures in virology for 2017
By Vincent Racaniello | 05-16-2017 | Basic virology, Information
Every year I teach a virology course to undergraduates and masters students at Columbia University. I record video and audio of each of the twenty-five lectures and release them on YouTube – so that not only the students but the rest of the world can learn about the amazing field of virology. With the spring …
Trial By Error, Continued: The CMRC Affirms Full Support for Libelous Esther
By Vincent Racaniello | 05-15-2017 | Uncategorized
By David Tuller, DrPH For the last couple of weeks, I have been hammering the CFS/ME Research Collaborative to take a position on the actions of its deputy chair, Libelous Esther, better known as Dr. Esther Crawley. As I reported in several previous posts, Dr. Crawley falsely accused me of writing libelous blogs and Dr. …
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Trial By Error: Australian Survey Seeks Input for New ME/CFS Guidelines
03-03-2025
By David Tuller, DrPH Australia’s National Medical Health and Research Council (NMHRC) recently released what it calls a “scoping survey” as a first step in developing new clinical practice guidelines for ME/CFS. The survey was posted online on February 21st; the deadline for responding is April 27th. The plan calls for the new guidelines to …
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Trial By Error: New Hyped-Up Lightning Process Study from New Zealand
03-02-2025
By David Tuller, DrPH In January, the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care published a paper from New Zealand called “An audit of 12 cases of long COVID following the lightning process intervention examining benefits and harms.” It reads like a Lightning Process marketing effort cosplaying as an academic study. As a reminder, the …
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Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently…
03-01-2025
By David Tuller, DrPH With so many people impacted by Long Covid and ME/CFS, it is impossible to keep up with all the non-academic articles, posts, and commentaries out there. The gusher of material is really overwhelming. Given that, sometimes it seems worthwhile to highlight a few things worth reading. (Note: Recommending something as worth …
Trial By Error: Trudie Chalder Is Co-Author on Another Bad Exercise Paper
02-28-2025
By David Tuller, DrPH It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least universally acknowledged by smart researchers), that if the list of authors on an article includes Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s mathematically and factually challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy, then the article in question should most assuredly be expected to be short on, or utterly devoid of, …
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Trial By Error: A Letter to Cochrane’s Editor-in-Chief
02-20-2025
By David Tuller, DrPH This morning, I e-mailed the following letter to Dr Karla Soares-Weiser, Cochrane’s editor-in-chief, about the decision to abandon a planned update of a review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS. (I cc’d Toby Lasserson, Cochrane’s deputy editor-in-chief.) That decision was made public in an abrupt announcement dumped on the patient community right …
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Trial By Error: GET Ideologues Try to Rebut Muscle Abnormality Study–and Fail
02-15-2025
By David Tuller, DrPH It is a pleasure to read a pointed and effective smack-down of an ill-informed argument, especially when the argument is pushing the graded exercise therapy/cognitive behavior therapy (GET/CBT) paradigm for ME/CFS, Long Covid and related illnesses. That’s how I felt about the excellent rebuttal this week to a letter from some …
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