TWiV 397: Trial by error
Journalism professor David Tuller returns to TWiV for a discussion of the PACE trial for ME/CFS: the many flaws in the trial, why its conclusions are useless, and why the…
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Trial By Error: My Unexpected E-Mail Exchange with Alem Matthees
…More on that at another point.) Quick background: Alem Matthees managed to “liberate” the key raw data from the PACE trial data by pursuing a Freedom of Information request against…
Trial By Error: A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Error in MUS Paper from Sir Simon and Colleagues
…in 2013, published the infamous PACE trial “recovery” paper, in which participants could get worse on the two primary measures and still be counted as “recovered.” At that time, the…
Trial By Error: Can Functional Neurological Disorder Be an Indication of Prion Disease?
…hospital to pay a young man six million euros for having failed to diagnose a brain tumor, an error that delayed necessary surgery by months. Doctors had misdiagnosed his headaches,…
Trial By Error: A Letter Requesting Corrections of Inflated Prevalence Rates in Nine More FND Papers
…not taken our advice but had nonetheless elaborated on their correction. We still believed it fell short of what was appropriate, given the substantive nature of the initial error, but…
Trial By Error: Update on Efforts to Correct False Statements about FND Prevalence
…this self-evident error is unacceptable and extremely troubling. Apparently the FND field is suffering from a severe case of group-think; not only are top investigators replicating these claims in paper…