By David Tuller, DrPH This is a crowdfunding month for UC Berkekely and Trial By Error. If you’d like to support my work, here’s the link: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768(Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.) ********** In late August, I sent a letter to eClinicalMedicine, a Lancet journal, about an egregiously flawed paper called “Effects of therapeutic interventions …
By David Tuller, DrPH Added: On X, @mecfsskeptic has posted a very useful thread explaining how loosely the investigators applied the meaning of “Long COVID” in accepting trials for their meta-analysis. ********** A Lancet journal, eClinicalMedicine, has just published a paper called “Effects of therapeutic interventions on long COVID: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.” …
By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, The Lancet published a paper from Christopher Burton and colleagues called “Effectiveness of a symptom-clinic intervention delivered by general practitioners with an extended role for people with multiple and persistent physical symptoms in England: the Multiple Symptoms Study 3 pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-group, individually randomised controlled trial.” Per the norm …
By David Tuller, DrPH The Lancet has just published an anguished whine de coeur from supporters of the graded exercise therapy/cognitive behavior therapy/ [GET/CBT] approach to ME/CFS. (Or CFS/ME, as these authors insist on calling the illness in what those familiar with the debate will recognize as a childish fit of pique.) These impassioned members …
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