ME, CFS, ME/CFS, CFS/ME, and Other Iterations…and “Medically Unexplained Symptoms”

Below are links to all articles by David Tuller related to ME/CFS that have been published at Virology Blog, plus guest posts, open letters, etc. Many patients have donated to the University of California, Berkeley, through university-sponsored crowdfunding campaigns in support of Tuller’s academic position at Berkeley’s Center for Global Public Health.

Aug 2, 2022–Trial By Error: A Few Things I’ve Read (or Heard) Lately About ME/CFS and Long Covid

July 26, 2022–Trial By Error: Professor Chalder Reports CBT Does Not Work for Post-Stroke Fatigue, Calls for More Research

July 25, 2022–Trial By Error: A Conversation with Patient Advocate Adam “Beyonce Holes” Lowe

July 20, 2022–Trial By Error: Mom Speaks Out About NHS “Abuse” of Daughter; Norway Approves Lightning Process Study

July 13, 2022–Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open About Missing Peer Reviews for Crawley Paper

July 12, 2022–Trial By Error: If Professor Crawley’s ACT Study Was Peer Reviewed, Where Are the Peer Reviews?

July 11, 2022–Trial By Error: Professor Crawley Promotes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for CBT Failures

July 7, 2022–Trial By Error: A Letter About the Inflated Prevalence Rate of Functional Neurological Disorder

July 3, 2022–Trial By Error: Sometimes Good Things Happen Quickly, Even When It Involves the UK National Health Service

June 22, 2022–Trial By Error: An FND Patient’s View–and More on Those Inflated Prevalence Rates

June 16, 2022–Trial By Error: Does Functional Neurology Disorder Account for a Third of Outpatient Neurology Consults?

June 6, 2022–Trial By Error: A Reprise of an Earlier Blog Post About Godwin’s Law on Nazi Analogies and Simon Wessely

June 4, 2022–Trial By Error: Science Media Centre Chief Fiona Fox Compares ME/CFS Patient Advocates to Nazis

May 31, 2022–Trial By Error: Deja Vu All Over Again with Proposed Lightning Process Study in Norway

May 26, 2022–Trial By Error: An Innumerate Response from Chalder to Hughes-Tuller Comments on Bogus Data Analysis

May 23, 2022–Trial By Error: Speaker at CDC Event Promotes CBT and “Very Gradual” GET

May 12, 2022–Trial By Error: An Interview With Mt Sinai’s David Putrino About Long Covid, ME/CFS, and Related Issues

April 23, 2022–Trial By Error: Now a Scottish Long Covid Study Fails to Mention the Risk of Post-Exertional Malaise

April 20, 2022–Trial By Error: Two Reports on the Financial Burden of Long Covid and Its Impact on ME/CFS Prevalence

April 18,  2022–Trial By Error: An Interview with Meghan O’Rourke, Author of “The Invisible Kingdom”

April 14, 2022–Trial By Error: The UK Health Research Authority’s Missteps on PACE and the Declaration of Helsinki

April 11, 2022–Trial By Error: PACE Team Stages a Comeback Tour

April 8, 2022–Trial By Error: More on the REGAIN Trial for Long Covid Patients

March 30, 2022–Trial By Error: Can Someone Please Slap a Warning Label on this Exercise-and-Rehab Long Covid Study?

March 5, 2022–Trial By Error: British GP Journal Retracts “Opinion” About Lightning Process Written By LP Practitioner

Feb 27, 2022–Trial By Error: The Usual Suspects Promote a Psychosocial “Research Agenda” for Long Covid

Feb 18, 2022–Trial By Error: My Letter Responding to Norway Health Leader’s Efforts to Denigrate My “Activist” Work

Feb 14, 2022–Trial By Error: The Lancet Publishes Whine de Coeur from Impassioned GET/CBT Defenders

Feb 10, 2022–Trial By Error: My Exchange of Letters on Amygdala Retraining; That Undead Lightning Process Study

Feb 4, 2022–Trial By Error: More on the Dutch CBT Long Covid Trial; Finnish Study of “Amygdala Retraining” Program

Jan 28, 2022–Trial By Error: CBT for CFS Should Target “Problematic Worry,” Says New Study from Professor Chalder

Jan 26, 2022–Trial By Error: Does “Long Covid” Need Rebranding As “Ongoing Covid-19 Recovery”?

Jan 22, 2022–Trial By Error: Q-and-A with Natalie Boulton, Director of “Dialogues for a Neglected Illness”

Jan 14, 2022–Trial By Error: French Dogs on the Trail; Impact of Long Covid on the US Job Market

Jan 7, 2022–Trial By Error: Dutch CBT Trial Targets “Dysfunctional Beliefs About Fatigue” in Long Covid Patients

Jan 4, 2022–Trial By Error: Awaiting Response on Chalder Paper; Australian GPs Still Promoting GET and Citing PACE

Dec 22, 2021–Trial By Error: An Exchange of Letters Concerning Professor Chalder’s Latest Disaster of a Paper

Dec 19, 2021–Trial By Error: Mayo Clinic Treatment Plan Cites “Deconditioning,” “Perfectionism,” and CBT

Dec 16, 2021–Trial By Error: A Letter to Occupational Medicine From Brian Hughes & Me About Prof Chalder’s Latest Disaster

Dec 11, 2021–Trial By Error: More on that Disastrous Employment Paper from Professor Chalder and Colleagues

Dec 7, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor Chalder Messes Up Again in New Paper on CFS and Employment Outcomes

Dec 3, 2021–Trial By Error: Lightning Process Star Complains About NICE; Struthers Nudges Cochrane to Keep Up

Nov 27, 2021–Trial By Error: An Interview with Adam Lowe, a Member of the NICE Guideline Committee for ME/CFS

Nov 20, 2021–Trial By Error: New Paper From PACE Authors Repeats Bogus Arguments and Defenses

Nov 16, 2021–Trial By Error: Some National Health Service Branches Fail to Respond to New NICE Guidelines for ME/CFS

Nov 15, 2021–Trial By Error: Is Something Shifting at the Science Media Centre?

Nov 10, 2021–Trial By Error: Authors Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt and Nasim Marie Jafry Discuss Their Novels

Nov 5, 2021–Trial By Error: King’s College London Is Still Hyping “Bespoke” CBT for CFS as “Recommended” in UK

Oct 31, 2021–Trial By Error: Losers in NICE Guideline Fight Remain Defiant Despite Public Repudiation of Their Claims

Oct 29, 2021–Trial By Error: NICE Liberates New ME/CFS Guideline After Two-Month Hijacking Nightmare

Oct 23, 2021–Trial By Error: PACE Authors Now Blame “Misunderstandings” for GET/CBT Criticisms

Oct 20, 2021–Trial By Error: NICE Announces Upcoming Release of ME/CFS Guideline After Prolonged Hostage Drama

Oct. 18, 2021–Trial By Error: Advocates Issue Hopeful Comments After NICE Pow-Wow on ME/CFS Guideline

Oct 15, 2021–Trial By Error: North Bristol NHS Trust’s Biased Survey of Patients Attending “CFS/ME Specialist Services”

Oct 8, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor Lubet’s Take on The New Yorker’s Long Covid Article

Oct 7, 2021–Trial By Error: UC Berkeley’s October Crowdfunding Campaign

Oct 3, 2021–Trial By Error: BBC’s Problematic Coverage of New Long COVID Study

Sept 24, 2021–Trial By Error: Good Long Covid Coverage from Atlantic; Skeptical Coverage from New Yorker and Others

Sept 20, 2021–Trial By Error: Advocates Propose Fixes to Dysfunctional US Coding System for ME, CFS and ME/CFS

Sept 15, 2021–Trial By Error: An Updated Letter to the NICE Chief Executive About the Unpublished ME/CFS Guideline

Sept 14, 2021–Trial By Error: More Science-as-Promotion from the GET Campaigners

Sept 7, 2021–Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila’s Annual Fact-Check of NIH Spending on ME/CFS Research

Sept 1, 2021–Trial By Error: While NICE Waffles, US Specialists Publish New Clinical Guidelines for ME/CFS

Sept 1, 2021–Trial By Error: A Letter Urging NICE to Publish ME/CFS Guideline Without Delay

Aug 19, 2021–Trial By Error: NICE Squares Off Against Royal College Bullies Over New ME/CFS Guidelines

Aug 10, 2021–Trial By Error: The Times Fact-Checks BMJ on NICE Committee; My Letter to BMJ€™s Fiona Godlee

Aug 7,  2021–Trial By Error: Three CBT/GET Proponents Quit NICE ME/CFS Guidance Panel as Publication Date Nears

July 31, 2021–Trial By Error: Neurology Journal Fixes False Claim in MUS Paper€“But Fails to Publish a Correction Notice

July 24, 2021–Trial By Error: Tack and I Write to Psych Medicine; Struthers Writes to Medical Research Council

July 22, 2021–Trial By Error: CBT Model of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Explained; CBT Trial for Q-Fever Fatigue

July 20, 2021–Trial By Error: Medical Societies and new Komaroff-Lipkin Paper Highlight Long COVID and ME/CFS Links

July 13, 2021–Trial By Error: Some Lightning Process Updates

July 6, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor Steven Lubet on Misogyny, Homophobia and Long COVID Denialism

July 5, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor White & Colleagues €œRegret Ignoring Null Results in GETSET Trial Follow-Up

July 3, 2021–Trial By Error: Quartet of Trials Reveals Limitations of CBT for €œMedically Unexplained Symptoms

June 30, 2021–Trial By Error: Journal Corrects €œHighlights of GETSET Paper; A Letter about Prof White€™s GET Safety Paper

June 25, 2021–Trial By Error: Lowenstein€™s Guardian Opinion; Eliot Smith€™s Post-NICE View; Tack€™s Take on Blinding Study

June 24, 2021–Trial By Error: Did the IBS Trial Really Show that Web-Based CBT Offered Significant Clinical Effectiveness?

June 19, 2021–Trial By Error: Null Outcomes Presented as Success in Yet Another CBT Trial from Prof Trudie Chalder

June 15, 2021–Trial By Error: #MEAction€™s Chronic Illness Survey; Patients€™ Research Informs CDC€™s Long-COVID Advice

June 10, 2021–Trial By Error: More Disinformation from Professor White in Journal of Psychosomatic Research

June 7, 2021–Trial By Error: Norway Rejects New Clinical Trial of Woo-Woo Lightning Process

May 15, 2021–Trial By Error: Journal Editorial Calls for Caution in Exercise-Based Rehab Programs for Long COVID

May 11, 2021–Trial By Error: More Letters about Professor Anthony David€™s Mis-Citations of Key Study on Costs of MUS

May 6, 2021–Trial By Error: My Letters to Psychosomatics Journal About Prof White€™s Misleading GETSET Paper

May 1, 2021–Trial By Error: In Guardian Column, Professor Pariante Parrots Standard Biopsychosocial Nonsense

April 26, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor David€™s Third Mis-Citation of Seminal Study of €œMedically Unexplained Symptoms

April 23, 2021–Trial By Errors: Why Have Experts in MUS Spent Ten Years Mis-Citing a Study about Costs to the NHS?

April 22, 2021–Trial By Error: More on the Lightning Process and the Science Media Centre€™s Collusion With UK Journalists

April 21, 2021–Trial By Error: Do the €œVast Majority of Lightning Process Participants Achieve €œLasting Change?

April 19, 2021–Trial By Error: Northwestern Law Professor Steven Lubet Corresponds with McMaster U. About That WSJ Op-Ed

April 18, 2021–Trial By Error: Letter to Lancet Editor Demanding Independent Investigation of PACE (Reprise from 2018)

April 17, 2021–Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Anthony David Asks Why MUS Experts Keep Misquoting a Major Study

April 17, 2021–Trial By Error: PACE Team€™s Work for Insurance Companies Is €œNot Related to PACE. Really? (Reprise)

April 15, 2021–Trial By Error: The World According to Sharpe

April 14, 2021–Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila Tracks Down–and Busts–an Old Tale About “Death Threats” from Patients

April 13, 2021–Trial By Error: A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Error in MUS Paper from Sir Simon and Colleagues

April 10, 2021–Trial By Error: Journal of Health Psychology Publishes Hughes-Tuller Critique of Wessely-Chalder CBT Claims

April 7, 2021–Trial By Error: Prof Sharpe Fact-Checks Comment on Blog About How George Monbiot Is Causing Long COVID

April 6, 2021–Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Is Causing Long COVID, Says Professor Michael Sharpe

April 6, 2021–Trial By Error: Northwestern Law Professor Steve Lubet€™s View of that Wall Street Journal Editorial

April 6, 2021–Trial By Error: GETSET Study Reports Null Results for Self-Help Graded Exercise€“but Declares Success Anyway

April 4, 2021–Trial By Error: Long COVID, the Long COVID Alliance, and ME International

April 2, 2021–Trial By Error: More on that WSJ Opinion Piece; and Q-and-A with Author of this Week€™s WSJ Rebuttal

March 25, 2021–Trial By Error: Clueless Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Endorses PACE as the “Prevailing View” Among Docs

March 20, 2021–Trial By Error: Another Excellent Read on Long Covid, ME/CFS and Medically Unexplained Symptoms

March 17, 2021–Trial By Error: Biopsychosocial Brigades Seek Traction with Long Covid

March 7, 2021–Trial By Error: Psychosomatics Journal Linked to PACE Authors Highlights Bias from Subjective Outcomes

March 3, 2021–Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Tracy White, Author of The Puzzle Solver

Feb 24, 2021–Trial By Error: National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins on Plans for Long Covid Research

Feb 18, 2021–Trial By Error: Happy 10th Anniversary, PACE Trial!

Feb 15, 2021–Trial By Error: Hughes-Tuller Comment on Wessely-Chalder CBT Study Rejected by Journal, Posted Here

Feb 9, 2021–Trial By Error: New Biopsychosocial Paper on Long-Covid and Somatic Symptom Disorder

Feb 3, 2021–Trial By Error: An Excerpt from Jamison Hill’s Memoir

Jan 28, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor Paul Garner€™s BMJ Blog Post on His Powerful Cognitions

Jan 27, 2021–Trial By Error: Professor Lubet€™s Inquiry to Medical Center Holding ME/CFS Patient

Jan 26, 2021–Trial By Error: My Exchange with Minnesota Medical Center Holding ME/CFS Patient

Jan 24, 2021–Trial By Error: Game-Changing Articles in The Guardian and The New York Times

Jan 15, 2021–Trial By Error: New Study Reports First-Hand Accounts of 1955 Hospital Outbreak

Jan 13, 2021–Trial By Error: Tack€™s Take on 2020 Studies; Professor Edwards€™ Statement to NICE

Dec 30, 2020–Trial By Error: Psych Issues Do Not Predict ME/CFS, New Chicago Study Shows

Dec 30, 2020–Trial By Error: Swedish ME Patient Fears Forced Psychiatric Treatment

Dec 21, 2020–Trial By Error: A Letter to BMJ From Prof Hughes, Prof Racaniello and Me

Dec 21, 2020–Trial By Error: BMJ Pushes Back Against New NICE Draft

Dec 16, 2020–Trial By Error: Professors Chalder and Crawley Join Forces to Push CBT for Kids

Dec 10, 2020–Trial By Error: Letter to Author of Removed GET/CBT Training Program for GPs

Dec 10, 2020–Trial By Error: GP Group Removes Online GET/CBT Medical Training Program

Dec 9, 2020–Trial By Error: My Zoom Talk on the NICE Draft for the Sheffield ME Group

Dec 6, 2020–Trial by Error: FDA Approves Web-CBT for IBS; GET/CBT as Tomorrow€™s €œRubbish

Dec 2, 2020–Trial By Error: Thoughts on The Observer, The Guardian, and Paradigm Shift

Nov 29, 2020–Trial By Error: The Observer Slips Up; ME Association Responds

Nov 25, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open about the CBT-Music Therapy Study

Nov 23, 2020–Trial By Error: Update on BMJ€™s CBT-Music Therapy Study (h/t Steinkopf and Tack)

Nov 20, 2020–Trial By Error: The Science Media Centre and UK€™s Coverage of New NICE Draft

Nov 14, 2020–Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila’s Annual Review of NIH Funding

Nov 12, 2020–This Week in Virology 680 (video): Long-term COVID and ME/CFS

Nov 10, 2020–Trial By Error: NICE Draft Rejects GET, Lightning Process, and CBT-As-Cure

Nov 9, 2020–Trial By Error: With Trump Out, Can GET/CBT Be Next?

Nov 7, 2020–Trial By Error: My Predictions for NICE ME/CFS Guidance, Reprise

Nov 3, 2020–Trial By Error: No Links Between €œParental Separation and Kids€™ ME Severity

Oct 27, 2020–Trial By Error: BMJ Retracts Music Therapy-CBT Study, But€¦

Oct 27, 2020–Trial By Error: The British Association for CFS/ME Switches Gears

Oct 25, 2020–Trial By Error: NICE’s Upcoming Draft Guidance on ME/CFS

Oct 21, 2020–Trial By Error: Professor Chew-Graham€™s Apparent Shift in Position on GET/CBT

Oct 20, 2020–Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Long Covid, ME/CFS and MUS

Oct 14, 2020–Trial By Error: Professor Chalder’s PRINCE Has Arrived

Oct 14, 2020–Trial By Error: How Professor Lubet’s Nightmare Began…

Oct 8, 2020–Trial By Error: NICE Draft Guidance on ME/CFS Coming Next Month

Oct 4, 2020–Trial By Error: More on the Royal Society of Medicine Webinar

Oct 1, 2020–Trial By Error: That Royal Society of Medicine Webinar on Long-Covid

Sept 28, 2020–Trial By Error: The CDC’s Stakeholder’s Meeting

Sept 20, 2020–Trial By Error: More CBT Research from Sir Simon and Professor Chalder, Part 2

Sept 17, 2020–Trial By Error: A Short Talk for UK Docs and Researchers

Sept 15, 2020–Trial By Error: UK Docs Speak Up on Long-Covid; Mayo Shifts Gears (a Little)

Sept 10, 2020–Trial By Error: Some Stuff about Long-Covid, BMJ, and ME

Sept 2, 2020–Trial By Error: What is the Dynamic Neural Retraining System?

Aug 27, 2020–Trial By Error: The Lightning Process Strikes Again

Aug 18, 2020–Trial By Error: FITNET: NHS Falls Short in Recruitment Drive

Aug 12, 2020–Trial By Error: More CBT Research from Sir Simon and Professor Chalder

Aug 10, 2020–Trial By Error: Recent Posts on Dutch Stuff from Simon McGrath and Lou Corsius

Aug 8, 2020–Trial By Error: And Now–No Surprise–CBT for Post-Covid Fatigue

Aug 5, 2020–Trial By Error: From UK’s National Health Service, “Your Covid Recovery”

Aug 3, 2020–Trial By Error: Some Stuff to Read and Watch from Rivka, Natalie & Anil

July 28, 2020–Trial By Error: Disinformation About Treatments for Post-Covid Syndrome

July 25, 2020–Trial By Error: Columbia Experts Urge BMJ to Retract Problem-Plagued Study

July 21, 2020–Trial By Error: Another Letter about BMJ’s Music Therapy Study

July 20, 2020–Trial By Error: No Evidence for CBT and Other “Conversion Disorder” Therapies

July 15, 2020–Trial By Error: NICE on Exercise and Post-Covid Syndrome

July 8, 2020–Trial By Error: Excellent News Coverage of UK Genetics Study in The Times

July 3, 2020–Trial By Error: Nudge for BMJ about Music Therapy; Letter to “Health Anxiety” Expert

July 2, 2020–Trial By Error: And Now There’s CBT for ‘Health Anxiety’ in CFS

June 30, 2020–Trial By Error: A Few Interesting Studies

June 27, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to Author of CODES Commentary

June 26, 2020–Trial By Error: CODES Trial Commentary Promotes ‘Eminence-Based Medicine’

June 25, 2020–Trial By Error: UK Funds Genetics Project; My Letter to CODES Investigators

June 23, 2020–Trial By Error: More Questions about CODES Trial of CBT for Seizures

June 18, 2020–Trial By Error: BMJ Responds to Appeals About Norway’s CBT-Music Therapy Study

June 17, 2020–Trial By Error: Trio of Trials Shows Limits of CBT for Medically Unexplained Symptoms

June 15, 2020–Trial By Error: A Letter to KCL, Another Letter to BMJ

June 11, 2020–Trial By Error: A King’s College London Press Release Hides the Bad News

June 9, 2020–Trial By Error: Couple More Posts Worth Reading

June 3, 2020–Trial By Error: A Response from Dagbladet

June 2, 2020–Trial By Error: A Couple of Blog Posts Worth Reading

May 31, 2020–Trial By Error: Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open About that CBT-Music Therapy Study

May 30, 2020–Trial By Error: Two Letters to Dagbladet About Its ME Coverage

May 28, 2020–Trial By Error: Tack’s Take on BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy “Feasibility Study”

May 28, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to Peer Reviewer of BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy Study

May 22, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to Senior Author of Norway’s CBT-Music-Therapy Study

May 20, 2020–Trial By Error: Norway’s Double Whammy of Fuzzy Science

May 18, 2020–Trial By Error: More Strangeness with that Norwegian CBT/Music Therapy Study

May 16, 2020–Trial By Error: More on that Norwegian CBT/Music Therapy Study

May 12, 2020–Trial By Error: Today is May 12th and Everyone’s Missing

May 8, 2020–Trial By Error: Valerie Eliot Smith on Covid-19, ME, and Legal Repercussions

May 6, 2020–Trial By Error: Merck Manual Still Disseminates GET/CBT Advice

May 5, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to IBS Study’s Corresponding Author

May 2, 2020–Trial By Error: Norway’s Proposed Lightning Process Trial

May 2, 2020–Trial By Error: Oxford Health’s Response to My Freedom of Information Request

April 30, 2020–Trial By Error: A Letter to Mahana’s NHS-Linked Business Adviser

April 28, 2020–Trial By Error: Another Nudge to Mahana’s Gastroenterology Advisers

April 25, 2020–Trial By Error: More on the Mahana Mess…

April 20, 2020–Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Freedom of Information Request to Oxford Health

April 20, 2020–Trial By Error: Oxford Health Blinks, Removes Pamphlet on Post-Covid Illness

April 18, 2020–Trial By Error: My FOI Letter about Oxford’s Post-Covid-19 Fatigue Pamphlet

April 18, 2020–Trial By Error: A Follow-Up to the Follow-Up Letter to Mahana

April 16, 2020–Trial By Error: Oxford-NHS Recommends GET/CBT for Post-Covid “CFS” Patients

April 15, 2020–Trial By Error: Revisiting Mahana and Irritable Bowel Syndrome…

April 13, 2020–Trial By Error: Berkeley Crowdfunding Month, Coronavirus Edition

April 9, 2020–Trial By Error: My Visits with Alem Matthees (Reprise)

April 8, 2020–Trial By Error: A Post about Lupus and MUS, Not COVID

April 7, 2020–Trial By Error: A Non-COVID Post about KCL’s Rejection of My FOI Request

April 3, 2020–Trial By Error: Thoughts on Self-Isolation from Anil van der Zee

April 2, 2020–Trial By Error: A Long-Time Patient Reflects on a Stay-at-Home World

March 26, 2020–Trial By Error: Some Coronavirus Advice from ME Association’s Charles Shepherd

March 18, 2020–Trial By Error: What Now?

March 16, 2020–Trial By Error: My Virtual Appearance in Sheffield

March 2, 2020–Trial By Error: New Biopsychosocial Study of Fatigue in HIV Patients

Feb 25, 2020–Trial By Error: Simon McGrath on Leonard Jason’s Study of US Pediatric Prevalence

Feb 24, 2020–Trial By Error: Another Letter About Mahana; BerkeleyWellness on IBS Study

Feb 19, 2020–Trial By Error: An Australian Radio Interview with Melbourne’s Mark Guthridge

Feb 17, 2020–Trial By Error: My Follow-up Letter to Mahana Therapeutic’s CEO

Feb 11, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to Mahana’s CEO and Co-Founder

Feb 11, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to Two More Mahana GI Advisors

Feb 10, 2020–Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Letter to Professor Rona Moss-Morris

Feb 5, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to One of Mahana’s Gastroenterology Advisors

Feb 3, 2020–Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Moss-Morris

Jan 28, 2020–Trial By Error: More on the Mahana Therapeutics Deal

Jan 27, 2020–Trial By Error: My FOI Request to King’s College London; My Letter to Mahana Therapeutics

Jan 27, 2020–Trial By Error: A Commercial Deal for King’s College London’s IBS-CBT Digital Program

Jan 24, 2020–Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Jan 22, 2020–Trial By Error: My Talk Last October in Oxford (Video)

Jan 15, 2020–Trial By Error: CBT Provides No Benefit for Advanced Cancer Patients, Study Finds

Jan 13, 2020–Trial By Error: The UK’s Proposed Genetics Study

Jan 13, 2020–Trial By Error: The 2018 PACE Reanalysis and the SMC’s Expert Appraisals

Jan 8, 2020–Trial By Error: NIH Funding “Needs Life Support,” Says Jennie Spotila

Jan 8, 2020–Trial By Error: The Danish ME Association’s Open Letter

Jan 7, 2020–Trial By Error: Some More Thoughts on Functional Neurological Disorder

Dec 31, 2019–Trial By Error: My 2011 Exchange with White et al about Case Definition

Dec 30, 2019–Trial By Error: Shaky Evidence for Signs of Functional Neurological Disorders

Dec 24, 2019–Trial By Error: PEM is Bad, and So Is Fukuda

Dec 16, 2019–Trial By Error: My STAT Opinion Piece on BMJ and Dr Godlee

Dec 16, 2019–Trial By Error: Simon McGrath on Ron Davis on “something in the blood”

Dec 10, 2019–Trial By Error: Mayo Clinic’s Crappy Website

Dec 6, 2019–Trial By Error: Fiona Godlee Doubles Down on Lightning Process Study

Dec 2, 2019–Trial By Error: More Calls to Godlee for LP Study Retraction

Dec 2, 2019–Trial By Error: Professor Jonathan Edwards’ View of ME

Nov 22, 2019–Trial By Error: Open Letter to Dr Godlee about BMJ’s Ethically Bankrupt Actions (2)

Nov 15, 2019–Trial By Error: A Follow-Up Letter to Bristol

Nov 13, 2019–Trial By Error: My Talk in Newry, Northern Ireland

Nov 2, 2019–Trial By Error: The HRA’s Letter to Berkeley’s Chancellor

Oct 30, 2019–Trial By Error: How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review (Reprise)

Oct 29, 2019–Trial By Error: “Bristol, it is Time to Withdraw Your Complaint to Berkeley”

Oct 28, 2019–Trial By Error: The HRA’s Letter about the Investigation of Bristol Research

Oct 21, 2019–Trial By Error: Bristol’s Report Due Soon; My Oxford Talk

Oct 9, 2019–Trial By Error–More on the Revised Cochrane Exercise Review

Oct 2, 2019–Trial By Error–Where is Bristol’s Review of Professor Crawley’s Ethics Missteps?

Sept 24, 2019–Trial By Error: What€™s Up With Cochrane€™s Exercise Review?

Sept 18, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Open about False MUS Claim

Sept 16, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chalder about the PRINCE Trial

Sept 16, 2019–Trial By Error: Another Batch of Letters To Dr Godlee on BMJ€™s LP Study Mess

Sept 11, 2019–Trial By Error: Experts Send More Tough Letters to Dr Godlee

Sept 9, 2019–Trial By Error: More Experts Urge Godlee to Retract Lightning Process Study

Sept 4, 2019–Trial By Error: More on Cochrane€™s New Risk of Bias Tool

Sept 3, 2019–Trial By Error: Calls for Retraction of the LP Study

August 31, 2019–Trial By Error: Lead Author of Cochrane€™s New Bias Guideline is LP Study Co-Author

August 28, 2019–Trial By Error: An Open Letter to Dr Godlee about BMJ€™s Ethically Bankrupt Actions

August 21, 2019–Trial By Error: Joan McParland€™s Lightning Process Experience

August 19, 2019–Trial By Error: My Interview with Melbourne€™s Dr Don Lewis

August 13, 2019–Trial By Error: An Ill-Informed Article in The Guardian

July 29, 2019–Trial By Error: More GET Drivel From Australia

July 16, 2019–Trial By Error: NHS ME/CFS Clinics Lax on Treatment Harms, Study Finds
July 15, 2019–Trial By Error: Our Exchange with BMJ Journal about €œCorrection of LP Study
July 10, 2019–Trial By Error: Mary Dimmock on CDC€™s New Evidence Review
July 8, 2019–Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on MUS and Bermingham; My Letter to Professor Payne
July 1, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham about the Cost of MUS
July 1, 2019–Trial By Error: FOI Response from Bristol about LP Study; Correction in BJGP about MUS
June 26, 2019–Trial By Error: An Update about the Pediatric MUS Systematic Review
June 24, 2019–Trial By Error: Another Review Mentions LP Study and Prompts More Letters
June 19, 2019–Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila€™s Latest NIH Funding Fact-Check
June 12, 2019–Trial by Error: A Letter to Bristol about my Recent FOI Request; Update Added
June 11, 2019–Trial By Error: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls
June 11, 2019–Trial By Error: Hey BJGP, Where’s that Correction about the Cost of MUS?
June 5, 2019–Trial By Error: A Second Letter to the LP Study’s Senior Author
June 5, 2019–Trial By Error: My Follow Up Follow Up to Dr Segal about LP Study Citation
June 3, 2019–Trial By Error: Re-Visiting My Questions for the Science Media Centre about Bristol’s LP Study
June 3, 2019–Trial By Error: Time to Retract the LP Study; Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
June 3, 2019–Trial By Error: A Freedom of Information Request to Bristol about LP Study
June 3, 2019–Trial By Error: Professor Edwards’ Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee about the LP Study
May 29, 2019–Trial By Error: British Journal of General Practice Agrees to Correction about MUS
May 22, 2019–Trial By Error: My Latest Letter on the Lightning Process Study; plus an Update
May 20, 2019–Trial By Error: The Lightning Process is “Effective”? Really?
May 20, 2019–Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Letter to the British Journal of General Practice
May 16, 2019–Trial By Error: A Plea to Fiona Godlee on a Familiar Topic
May 14, 2019–Trial By Error: A Crowdfunding Wrap-Up
May 13, 2019–Trial By Error: My Most Recent Exchange with Bristol
May 7, 2019–Trial By Error: My Exchange with the British Journal of General Practice
May 6, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter about MUS to the British Journal of General Practice
April 30, 2019–Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Letter to Reuters
April 29, 2019–Trial By Error: My Latest Letter to Bristol’s Legal Department
April 23, 2019–Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila on Collins’ NIH Talk
April 22, 2019–Trial By Error: Crowdfunding Week 3 Matching Grant
April 21, 2019–Trial By Error: Revisiting the Reuters Story
April 18, 2019–Trial By Error: A Reuters Update
April 15, 2019–Trial By Error: Crowdfunding, Week 2; and more Sharpe and Chalder
April 9, 2019–Trial By Error: My Latest Letter to Bristol
April 8, 2019–Trial By Error: Crowdfunding, Week 1
April 2, 2019–Trial By Error: This Year’s US Clinician Summit
April 1, 2019–Trial By Error: My Berkeley Crowdfunding Appeal
April 1, 2019–Trial By Error: A Bit More on Kaiser Permanente
March 25, 2019–Trial By Error: The CDC’s Pathetic Response to Reuters
March 18, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to Kate Kelland
March 18, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Hotopf About Bristol’s School Absence Study
March 12, 2019–Trial By Error: Cochrane’s Report on Courtney’s Complaint
March 11, 2019–Trial By Error: Kaiser Permanente Changes Course
March 6, 2019–Trial By Error: Stupid Studies
March 4, 2019–Trial By Error: Who Has the School Study Documents?
Feb 25, 2019–Trial By Error: The Cost of MUS
Feb 20, 2019–Trial By Error: Cochrane Update, and Caroline Struthers’ Latest Letter
Feb 18, 2019–Trial By Error: Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes
Feb 18, 2019–Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Retraction Requests
Feb 13, 2019–Trial By Error: Spotila’s Take on NIH Grant Reviewers
Feb 13, 2019–Trial By Error: Re-visiitng My Questions for PACE Professors
Feb 12, 2019–Trial By Error: BMJ Amends Last Week’s PACE Article
Feb 6, 2019–Trial By Error: HRA Report Does Not Vindicate PACE
Feb 5, 2019–Trial By Error: And Another Prebuttal…
Feb 3, 2019–Trial By Error: A Recap of the School Absence Study
Feb 1, 2019–Trial By Error: A Bit More About Bristol’s Investigation
Jan 31, 2019–Trial By Error: The Reporter’s Questions for Professor Racaniello
Jan 31, 2019–Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on an Upcoming Article
Jan 31, 2019–Trial By Error: Bristol Investigating Crawley Papers
Jan 28, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham About METRIC
Jan 28, 2019–Trial By Error: Steve Brine’s Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME
Jan 23, 2019–Trial By Error: Action For ME’s Employment Advice
Jan 22, 2019–Trial By Error: S4ME Summary for Week of January 14th
Jan 22, 2019–Trial By Error: My Six-Month Review
Jan 21, 2019–Trial By Error: Carol Monaghan Scores Another Parliamentary Debate
Jan 7, 2019–Trial By Error: More Thoughts on the Interferon Study
Jan 7, 2019–Trial By Error: My Letter to LP Study’s Senior Author
Dec 31, 2018–Trial By Error: My Norwegian Interview
Dec 26, 2018–Trial By Error: Talk Is Cheap, Patients Tell NIH
Dec 24, 2018–Trial By Error: Australian Draft Report Seeks Comments
Dec 19, 2018–Trial By Error: The New Interferon “CFS” Study
Dec 12, 2018–Trial By Error: The View From Norway
Dec 10, 2018–Trial By Error: And Cochrane Makes Another Move…
Dec 4, 2018–Trial By Error: How BMJ Enabled Bristol’s Ethics Exemptions
Dec 3, 2018–Trial By Error: Some Good News on Cochrane
Nov 19, 2018–Trial By Error: Some Thoughts About NICE
Nov 14, 2018–Trial By Error: Video of October Newry Talk, with Brian Hughes
Nov 12, 2018–Trial By Error: How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review
Nov 8, 2018–Trial By Error: An Australian Exchange with Professor Sharpe
Nov 7, 2018–Trial By Error: Yet Another Letter About the Lightning Process
Oct 28, 2018–Trial By Error: Three Years On…
Oct 24, 2018–Trial By Error: Where’s My Apology, BMJ Open?
Oct 23, 2018–A Statement in Support of Cochrane
Oct 19, 2018–Vincent Racaniello: My Letter to organizers of 4th Columbia Psyhcosomatics Conference
Oct 19, 2018–Trial By Error: A Reminder about Saturday’s Columbia Protest
Oct 19, 2018–Trial By Error: Cochrane Decides to Withdraw Flawed Exercise Review
Oct 18, 2018–Ian Lipkin: ME/CFS is not a psychosomatic illness
Oct 17, 2018–Trial By Error: The Psychosomatic Conference’s Pathetic Response
Oct 16, 2018–Trial By Error: Per Fink in New York
Oct 10, 2018–Trial By Error: My First Post on the IAPT Program
Oct 8, 2018–Trial By Error: My Latest Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
Oct 1, 2018–Trial By Error: The CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference
Sept 24, 2018–Trial By Error: The Open Letter to Netflix about Afflicted
Sept 18, 2018–Trial By Error: Bruce Levin on “How Not to Conduct a Randomized Clinical Trial
Sept 17, 2018–Trial By Error: So What’s Happening with the MAGENTA Trial?
Sept 3, 2018–Trial By Error: The Cochrane Controversy
Aug 28, 2018–Trial By Error: Professor Edwards’ Letter to MRC’s Fiona Watt
Aug 27, 2018–Trial By Error: Another Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee
Aug 22, 2018–Trial By Error: My Letter to Red Whale/GP Update
Aug 20, 2018–Trial By Error: FITNET-NHS Recruitment Ad Promotes “Recovery”
Aug 20, 2018–TWIV Special: David Tuller is PACEman
Aug 20, 2018–Trial By Error: More Mayo, Please…
Aug 15, 2018–Trial By Error: The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal
Aug 13, 2018–Trial By Error: Open Letter to The Lancet, version 3.0
Aug 6, 2018–Trial By Error: Mayo Still Champions GET
July 30, 2018–Trial By Error: The CDC’s Update for Healthcare Providers
July 16, 2018–Trial By Error: The Contentless “Editor’s Note” About the Lightning Process Trial
July 11, 2018–Trial By Error: My Letter to Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee
July 11, 2018–Trial By Error: Waiting for Godlee
July 11, 2018–Trial By Error: Yet Another Appeal to The Lancet, With More on Board
July 9, 2018–Trial By Error: Do All Clinical Trial Experts Love Pace?
July 2, 2018–Trial By Error: My Letter to Fiona Godlee
July 2, 2018–Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Pre-Hearing Briefing for Monaghan
June 25, 2018–Trial By Error: My Exchange With Professor Bishop
June 25, 2018–Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Intemperate Remarks–For Whom Is He Speaking? (by Steven Lubet)
June 19, 2018–Trial By Error: An Open Letter to The Lancet, Two Years On
June 18, 2018–Trial By Error: Sir Simon Scores an Own Goal
June 18, 2018–Trial By Error: A Letter to NICE About the IAPT Program
June 13, 2018–Trial By Error: A Curriculum for Treating CFS with CBT
June 11, 2018–Trial By Error: More Letters About BMJ’s Flawed Pediatric Studies
June 6, 2018–Trial By Error: My Letter to the Science Media Centre about BMJ Study
June 6, 2018–Trial By Error: A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards
June 5, 2018–Trial By Error: My Letter to MP Monaghan About BMJ Studies
June 4, 2018–Trial By Error: BMJ Still “Looking Into” Lightning Process Paper
May 29, 2018–Trial By Error: My 2011 NY Times Exchange with the PACE PIs
May 29, 2018–Trial By Error: NICE’s Consideration of the Lightning Process
May 23, 2018–Trial By Error: More on the CDC; Reader’s Digest; and BBC’s Newsbeat
May 14, 2018–Trial By Error: Australia’s Online GET/CBT Education Program
May 11, 2018–Trial By Error: May 12th–International ME Awareness Day
May 7, 2018–Trial By Error: My Visits with Alem Matthees
May 2, 2018–Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Leonard Jason, on Case Definition
April 25, 2018–Trial By Error: Goodbye, Australia; and Two Updates
April 24, 2018–Trial By Error: Andrew Lloyd’s Past Endorsement of PACE
April 24, 2018–Trial By Error: The Shopping Bag Study; and New York State’s Revamped Website
April 18, 2018–Trial By Error: Professor Michael Sharpe’s Gaffe on Australian Radio
April 16, 2018–Trial By Error, Guest Post: Crowdfunding David Tuller Is Not a Conflict of Interest
April 16, 2018–Trial By Error: Two Interview Podcasts, and “Conflicts of Interest”
April 11, 2018–Trial By Error: My Australian Tour, Continued
April 4, 2018–Trial By Error: A Terrific Piece About ME/CFS on Australian TV
April 4, 2018–Trial By Error: A Post About Andrew Lloyd
April 2, 2018–Trial By Error: Our Latest Tango With BMJ Open
April 2, 2018–Trial By Error: My Berkeley-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign
March 28, 2018–Trial By Error: A Q-and-A With Scottish MP Carol Monaghan
March 27, 2018–Trial By Error: My Time in Canberra
March 26, 2018–Trial By Error: Yet Another Go-Round with BMJ Open
March 21, 2018–Trial By Error: Checking in from Melbourne and Canberra…
March 14, 2018–Trial By Error: The Australian Situation, and Professor Crawley’s New Position
March 12, 2018–Trial By Error: The Dutch Review; My Trip; Bristol’s Silence
March 7, 2018–Trial By Error: Yesterday’s News from the CFS/ME Research Collaborative
March 7, 2018–Trial By Error: My Exchange with Archives of Disease in Childhood
March 5, 2018–Trial By Error: News About My Plans
Feb 26, 2018–Trial By Error: Our Exchange of Views with BMJ Open
Feb 19, 2018–Trial By Error: A Letter to BMJ Open
Feb 13, 2018–Trial By Error: QMUL and FOI; Nature and Cochrane; the Pineapple Fund
Feb 5, 2018–Trial By Error: Letter to British Journal of Sports Medicine from CPET Experts
Jan 30, 2018–Trial By Error: A Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
Jan 17, 2018–Trial By Error: Professor Crawley’s Bogus BuzzFeed Claims
Jan 15, 2018–Trial By Error: My Six-Month Review
Jan 3, 2018–Trial By Error: COPE to BMJ Open: More Details, Please!
Jan 2, 2018–Trial By Error: The School Absence Study, Revisited
Dec 27, 2017–Trial By Error: A Sneak Preview of Next Week’s Post
Dec 23, 2017–Trial By Error: Bristol’s Complaint to Berkeley
Dec 18, 2017–Trial By Error: My Questions for the Science Media Centre
Dec 13, 2017–Trial By Error: The SMILE Trial’s Undisclosed Outcome-Swapping
Dec 4, 2017–Trial By Error: My One-Sided Correspondence with Professor Crawley
Nov 29, 2017–Trial By Error: The Crawley Chronicles, Continued
Nov 22, 2017–Trial By Error: Hey Bristol, Where’s My Cease and Desist Letter?
Nov 20, 2017–Trial By Error: My Brief Encounter with Professor Crawley
Nov 15, 2017–Trial By Error: What’s Going On, BMJ Best Practice?
Nov 13, 2017–Trial By Error: The Surprising New BMJ Best Practice Guide (written with Steven Lubet, JD)
Oct 23, 2017–Trial By Error: Current NICE Guidance Stands, For Now
Oct 17, 2017–Trial By Error: Another Letter to NICE’s Sir Andrew Dillon
Oct 3, 2017–Trial By Error: NIH Grants $2.1 Million to U.K. Biobank!
Sept 25, 2017–Trial By Error: NICE Rejects Current Guidance, Plans “Full Update”
Sept 18, 2017–Trial By Error: MEGA’s Latest Failure
Sept 11, 2017 – Trial By Error: The NICE €œTopic Expert Reports
Aug 30, 2017 – Trial By Error: Seeking More Details on Crawley School Absence Study
Aug 28, 2017 – Trial By Error: No Ethical Review of Crawley School Absence Study
Aug 14, 2017 – Trial by Error: My E-Mail Exchange With NICE Chief Executive
Aug 2, 2017 – Trial by Error: Retired PACE Investigator Peter White and Swiss Re
Aug 2, 2017 – Trial by Error: The Science Media Centre€™s Desperate Efforts to Defend PACE
Jul 31, 2017 – Trial by Error: NICE Rejects My FOI Request
Jul 24, 2017 – Trial by Error: NICE Declines to Disclose Names of Experts
Jul 17, 2017 – Trial by Error: The NICE guidelines, and more on the CDC
Jul 10, 2017 – Trial By Error: The CDC Drops CBT/GET
July 3, 2017: Trial By Error, Guest Post: Questions About Professor Sharpe’s ‘Special Ethics Seminar’
Jun 28, 2017 – Trial by Error, Continued: More on Graded Exercise from Peter White and The Lancet
Jun 24, 2017 – Trial by Error, Continued: Is PACE a Case of Research Misconduct?
Jun 19, 2017 – Trial by Error, Continued: University of Bristol Responds, Sort Of
Jun 14, 2017 – Trial by Error, Continued: My Letter to the University of Bristol
Jun 7, 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: Julie Rehmeyer€™s Journey €œThrough the Shadowlands
Jun 4, 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: My €œTear It Up Talk at Invest in ME
Jun 1, 2017 – David Tuller€™s Trial By Error Crowdfunding Campaign
May 22, 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: ME Research UK Drops Out of CMRC
May 15 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: The CMRC Affirms Full Support for Libelous Esther
May 10 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: CMRC to Virology Blog: ‘F**k Off!’
May 8 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: An Open Letter to the Board of the CFS/ME Research Collaborative
May 3, 2017 – Trial By Error, Continued: My Libelous Blogging on Virology Blog
Mar 23, 2017 – An open letter to Psychological Medicine, again!
Mar 13, 2017 – An open letter to Psychological Medicine about €œrecovery and the PACE trial
Dec 2, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: The Dutch Studies (Again!), and an Esther Crawley Bonus
Nov 28, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: A Follow-Up Post on FITNET-NHS
Nov 21, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: The New FITNET Trial for Kids
Sep 22, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: The Real Data
Sep 1, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: My Questions for Lancet Editor Richard Horton
Aug 29, 2016 – Once Again, Lancet Stumbles on PACE
Feb 10, 2016 – An Open Letter to The Lancet, Again
Feb 1, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: A Few Words About ‘Harassment’
Jan 19, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: More Nonsense from The Lancet Psychiatry
Jan 7, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Trial Really Prove that Graded Exercise Is Safe? (coauthored by Julie Rehmeyer)
Jan 4, 2016 – Trial By Error, Continued: Questions for Dr. White and his PACE Colleagues
Dec 22, 2015 – Revisiting the PLoS One economics analysis of PACE
Dec 17, 2015 – A request for data from the PACE trial
Nov 17, 2015 – Trial by error, Continued: PACE Team€™s Work for Insurance Companies Is €œNot Related to PACE. Really?
Nov 13, 2015 – An open letter to Dr. Richard Horton and The Lancet
Nov 9, 2015 – Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study€™s Sister Trial been Disappeared and Forgotten?
Nov 4, 2015 – Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Study Really Adopt a ‘Strict Criterion€™ for Recovery?
Oct 30, 2015 – David Tuller responds to the PACE Investigators
Oct 30, 2015 – PACE trial investigators respond to David Tuller
Oct 23, 2015 – TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (final installment)
Oct 22, 2015 – TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (second installment)
Oct 21, 2015 – TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study
Nov 23, 2011 – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale

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