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Trial By Error: My Article on the Cochrane Mess in The Sick Times

By David Tuller, DrPH In November, 2023, journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis launched The Sick Times, a publication whose tagline is “chronicling the Long Covid crisis.” Since then, the publication has diligently tracked the political and medical developments of this post-pandemic pandemic and has become a go-to source for intelligent reporting on the situation. …

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Trial By Error: Professor Edwards’ Letter to BMJ on the Cochrane Mess

By David Tuller, DrPH The Cochrane mess, which I wrote about the other day, is threatening to take on a life of its own. Perhaps Cochrane thinks the fuss over the big Christmas “fuck you” it delivered to members of the ME/CFS community will blow over quickly. That could happen, I suppose, but I suspect …

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Trial By Error: Cochrane’s Decision on Exercise Review is Hurting Patients, Says Longtime Insider

By David Tuller, DrPH I have written frequently about Cochrane, the organization renowned for its systematic reviews of medical interventions, and its deeply flawed review of exercise therapies for ME/CFS–including its decision last month to abandon its commitment to produce a new version. Now Hilda Bastian, an Australia health consumer advocate and longtime Cochrane insider, …

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Trial By Error: Cochrane Continues Telling ME/CFS Patients to Go F–k Themselves

By David Tuller, DrPH Update/Correction: Below, I initially wrote that Cochrane was lying in describing the update plan as a “pilot project.” However, it turns out that the organization did describe its plan to engage community partners as a “pilot project.” Here’s the statement from March, 2020: “Cochrane is conducting a pilot project for engaging …

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Trial By Error: Cochrane Tells ME/CFS Patients to Go F–k Themselves

By David Tuller, DrPH Cochrane has just given the finger to the international ME/CFS community. After jerking everyone around and promising for five years to conduct a new review of exercise interventions for the illness, the organization abruptly abandoned that commitment this week. On Monday, Cochrane posted the following message on its website: “In 2019, …

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Trial By Error: Cochrane Ends Silence on ME/CFS Exercise Review Developments

By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley for my Trial by Error project. If you appreciate my work and would like to help support it, here’s the link for this November’s campaign. UPDATE: Cochrane has rejected Science For ME’s complaint, as discussed yesterday on a thread on the forum at around the …

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