David Tuller Trial By Error: Why is the Department of Veterans Affairs Using a 1988 Definition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? By David Tuller 01-09-2023 By Da ...| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH| Trial By Error
For decades, Cochrane — formerly called the Cochrane Collaboration — has been known internationally for its systematic reviews of medical treatments and interventions. Now the U.K.-based charity is under fire for its clumsy handling of a thorny issue: the status of a flawed 2019 review of exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).| The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis
By David Tuller, DrPH In 2018, I spent six weeks in Australia, visiting multiple cities on a kind of ME/CFS tour around the country. Near the end, I spent five days in Perth. The local patient and advocacy organization arranged for me to give a talk, do some lobbying with local government, and so on. …Trial By Error: A Reprise of a 2018 Post on My Visits with Alem Matthees Read More »| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least universally acknowledged by smart researchers), that if the list of authors on an article includes Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s mathematically and factually challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy, then the article in question should most assuredly be expected to be short on, or utterly devoid of, …Trial By Error: Trudie Chalder Is Co-Author on Another Bad Exercise Paper Read More »| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH This morning, I e-mailed the following letter to Dr Karla Soares-Weiser, Cochrane’s editor-in-chief, about the decision to abandon a p ...| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH The BMJ recently published a review of interventions for Long Covid that--surprise!--recommended CBT and a rehabilitation program as t ...| Virology Blog