Trial By Error: The School Absence Study, Revisited
…of school absence: surveillance outcomes from school-based clinics. In my post, I criticized BMJ Open for how it handled the paper and also for how its editors handled concerns raised…
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Trial By Error: The New Interferon “CFS” Study
…weeks into the treatment, and found that the results were not significantly different, they should have adjusted their threshold for statistical significance accordingly. The fact that they did not have…
Trial By Error: My Talk at Cambridge Last October on “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms'”
By David Tuller, DrPH I gave a talk at Cambridge University last October called “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms.’” More accurately, I gave the same talk…
Trial By Error: Agencies Respond to Coroner’s Report in Boothby O’Neill Inquest
…a positive sign for ME sufferers that all these public bodies have listened to the coroner and responded to her findings. “However, the actual responses are lacking substance. There is…
Trial by Error: NICE Declines to Disclose Names of Experts
…that more than 15,000 people sign petitions expressing serious dissatisfaction with existing clinical guidelines. But that’s how many have put their names to the petition launched by the ME Association….
Virus and antibodies during asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections
…study, it’s important to clarify what is meant by a symptom of infection: It is something that can be felt only by the infected individual. In contrast, a sign of…