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Trial By Error: Are Claims of “Recovery” from Psycho-Behavioral Interventions a Form of Bait-and-Switch ?

By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, the link is here. In a medical context, what does “recovery” mean? A pretty standard understanding is this one offered by The Free Dictionary: “a return to a normal or healthy condition.” If experts suggest a …

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Trial By Error: Professor Chalder Downgrades Definition of “Recovery”

By David Tuller, DrPH President Trump’s words and actions are routinely mind-boggling but never surprising, given past experience. The same is true of papers co-authored by Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s mathematically and factually challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy. In a recent article, she holds true to form.  In “Recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome: …

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Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” Been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?

By David Tuller, DrPH David Tuller is academic coordinator of the concurrent masters degree program in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, the BMJ published the results of the Fatigue Intervention by Nurses Evaluation, or FINE. The investigators for this companion trial to PACE, also funded by the Medical …

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