Long Covid

Trial By Error: Dutch CBT Study for Long Covid Proves that Unblinded Studies with Subjective Outcomes Generate Positive Reports

By David Tuller, DrPH Three years ago, I wrote a blog post about a problematic Dutch study that had been funded by a major health agency and was being led by Hans Knoop, a professor of medical psychology at Amsterdam University Medical Centers. The study sought to test whether a course of cognitive behavior therapy …

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Trial By Error: Some Recent Long Covid Articles from STAT/MuckRock, The Atlantic, and Nieman Reports

By David Tuller, DrPH*April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project:  https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/37217 STAT and MuckRock co-publish investigative report slamming NIH’s RECOVER initiatve Earlier this month, I wrote about the problem of exercise studies for …

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Trial By Error: Professors Crawley, Chalder & Colleagues Investigate Pediatric Long Covid in Yet Another Study with a Stupid Acronym

By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project:  https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/37217 No human being should ever have to read as many papers as I have from Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically …

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Trial By Error: Further Thoughts on that JAMA Network Open Article and Estimates of Long Covid Prevalence

By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project:  https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/37217 Last week, I wrote two posts–here and here–about a new Norwegian study in JAMA Network Open that was essentially designed not …

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Trial By Error: What is Recovery Norway’s Role in the JAMA Network Open Study of Long Covid in Young People?

By David Tuller, DrPH*April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project:  https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/37217 As I wrote earlier this week, a new study of adolescents and young adults from Norway, published by JAMA Network Open, …

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Trial By Error: GET/CBT Ideologues Revive 1991 Oxford Criteria as Core Definition for Long Covid Research

By David Tuller, DrPH The Collaborative on Fatigue Following Infection, or COFFI, was formed in 2015 to promote the theories and treatment approaches embodied in the now-discredited and arguably fraudulent PACE trial and related research. In a nutshell, PACE and related research promoted the notion that the symptoms of patients with the clinical entity or …

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