Trial By Error: Another Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, The Times ran an article about the open letter to The Lancet concerning the PACE trial, quickly followed by a piece in The BMJ….
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Trial By Error: Professor Chalder Messes Up Again in New Paper on CFS and Employment Outcomes
By David Tuller, DrPH Same-Day Update: In re-reading the new paper, I noticed that the discussion section also features errors involving the percentages. It includes this sentence: “About 9% of…
Trial By Error: Why is Professor Crawley Still on the COFFI Steering Committee?
…the results as if the trial were fully prospective. Such actions violated core principles of scientific inquiry. The trial now carries a 3,000-word correction and a 1,000-word editor’s note explaining,…
Trial By Error: My Brief Encounter with Professor Crawley
…anyone should trust open-label trials with subjective outcomes, like FITNET-NHS, her online CBT trial for kids. When she discussed her recently published SMILE study of the cult-like Lightning Process, she…
Trial By Error: Crowdfunding, Week 2; and more Sharpe and Chalder
…options and wrote this: “Dr Rowe…dismisses the findings of this trial [PACE], referencing a critique published in the journal BMC Psychology and implying that this had nullified the trial findings….
Trial By Error: A Plea to Fiona Godlee on a Familiar Topic
…with a 2017 paper called “Clinical and cost-effectiveness of the Lightning Process in addition to specialist medical care for paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial.” More than a year…