Trial By Error: And Now–No Surprise–CBT for Post-Covid Fatigue
…reasons they will be less willing or able to do so without professional assistance. In selling the premise, Professor Knoop perhaps cited the PACE trial, his own FITNET trial and/or…
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Trial By Error: Professor Chalder’s PRINCE Has Arrived
…in a fully powered randomised controlled trial.” Given the poor outcome results, why would they conduct a follow-up trial? Why would anyone provide them with more funding when they have…
Trial by Error: FDA Approves Web-CBT for IBS; GET/CBT as Tomorrow’s “Rubbish”
…trial with more than 500 participants. Unfortunately for the investigators, the trial essentially demonstrated the program’s ineffectiveness. To begin with, the trial was an unblinded study relying on self-reported outcomes,…
Trial By Error: Happy Tenth Anniversary, PACE Trial!
By David Tuller, DrPH It’s been ten years since The Lancet published the first results of the PACE trial. Wow! Ten years ago, I was 54 and still a graduate…
Trial By Error: GETSET Study Reports Null Results for Self-Help Graded Exercise–but Declares Success Anyway
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research (JSR), an influential publication. recently published an article that made a crucial point, in clinical trials, subjective outcomes are at “a…
Trial By Error: Northwestern Law Professor Steven Lubet Corresponds with McMaster U. About That WSJ Op-Ed
…and disparaging patient advocacy groups, Devine asserted that the PACE trial’s psychogenic theory of ME/CFS is “the prevailing view among medical practitioners.” As readers of this site know, that has…