By David Tuller, DrPH Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, is a leading investigator into long Covid. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, to and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. She was one of …
By David Tuller, DrPH It’s hard to keep up with everything going on in this field these days. So I missed the fact that Lillebeth Larun, the lead author behind the deeply flawed Cochrane review of exercise therapies for what the organization then called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has concocted yet another unconvincing defense of …
By David Tuller, DrPH On Monday afternoon, a bunch of people in Terminal 4 at Heathrow, London’s biggest airport, reported feeling ill. The reports led to concerns about a possible toxic exposure, which triggered an evacuation and major flight delays. An initial search for dangerous substances found nothing. On Tuesday, The Guardian ran an article …
Trial By Error: “Mass Psychogenic Illness” at Heathrow Airport–NOT! Read More »
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, a research team from Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity published a paper called “Heightened innate immunity may trigger chronic inflammation, fatigue and post-exertional malaise in ME/CFS,” in the journal npj Metabolic Health and Disease. The senior investigator, Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, is director of the center and …
By David Tuller, DrPH In a new paper, a team of investigators from the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, describes a “pilot feasibility” trial for an ME/CFS intervention focused on physical activity. The trial fell dramatically short on recruitment efforts—a failure that the investigators appear to explicitly blame on the patient community rather …
By David Tuller, DrPH A reader from Belgium sent me the following (satirical) paper she’d written for the “Journal of Entrenched Paradigms.” I found it entertaining, well-written, and on-target, and figured others would as well. It offers a sharp assessment of some of the favorite methodological strategies of members of the CBT/GET ideological brigades. I …
