david tuller

The CDC's Update for Healthcare Providers Last summer, the US Centers for Disease Control removed graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavior therapy from its website as recommendations for treatment of the illness it was by then calling ME/CFS. Its stated explanation for the change–that...

Trial By Error: The Contentless “Editor’s Note” About the Lightning Process Trial http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/16/trial-by-error-the-contentless-editors-note-about-the-lightning-process-trial/ 16 July 2018 By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I noticed that Nick Brown, the editor-in-chief of...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/11/trial-by-error-my-letter-to-the-science-and-technology-committee/

Trial by Error: Waiting for Godlee This morning I sent another letter to Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief at The BMJ and editorial director at BMJ. Hopefully she will take action soon on the two pediatric papers whose publication has demonstrated that something is seriously amiss at the journals...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/10/trial-by-error-yet-another-appeal-to-the-lancet-with-more-on-board/ As many members will be aware, this forum is now a signatory to the letter, too.

Trial By Error: Do All Clinical Trial Experts Love PACE? 9 July 2018 By David Tuller, DrPH http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/09/trial-by-error-do-all-clinical-trial-experts-love-pace/ Professor Michael Sharpe blocked me on Twitter many weeks ago but apparently can’t restrain himself from...

My Letter to Fiona Godlee Earlier today, I e-mailed the following letter to Fiona Godlee, the editor-in-chief at The BMJ and editorial director of BMJ. I cc’d the Health Research Authority, the CFS/ME Research Collaborative, NICE, Carol Monaghan, etc. The subject line: BMJ’s failure to...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/02/trial-by-error-professor-sharpes-pre-hearing-briefing-for-monaghan/

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/25/trial-by-error-my-exchange-with-professor-bishop/

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/25/trial-by-error-professor-sharpes-intemperate-remarks-for-whom-is-he-speaking/

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/19/trial-by-error-an-open-letter-to-the-lancet-two-years-on/

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/18/trial-by-error-sir-simon-scores-an-own-goal/

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/18/trial-by-error-a-letter-to-nice-about-the-iapt-program/

Looks like David's starting to dig into the IAPT stuff, which seems as grim as anyone could fear: http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/13/trial-by-error-a-curriculum-for-treating-cfs-with-cbt/

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/11/trial-by-error-more-letters-about-bmjs-flawed-pediatric-studies/

Trial By Error: A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/06/trial-by-error-an/ 6 June 2018 By David Tuller, DrPH I am not sure what is going on at BMJ and why editors there seem incapable of acknowledging their flawed decision-making...

My Letter to MP Monaghan About BMJ Studies This morning, I sent an e-mail about BMJ to Scottish National Party MP Carol Monaghan. MP Monaghan, a science teacher by profession, has a keen interest in research accountability as well as in the plight of ME/CFS patients. In February, she organized...

BMJ Still "Looking Into Lightning Process Paper" Tuller has received via CC an e-mail from dr. Brown, editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood, stating that they had previously acknowledged receipt of his complaints, are looking into them and will respond fully when ready. Tuller has...

My 2011 NY Times Exchange With the PACE PIs When the PACE trial was published in early 2011, my New York Times editor sent it to me, along with the press release. As a non-staff contributor to the Times, I had started covering the debate over the mouse retrovirus hypothesis and science, but I’d...

NICE's Consideration of the Lightning Process Here’s an e-mail I sent last Thursday to two key members of the NICE guidance executive, Sir Andrew Dillon and Professor Mark Baker. I also cc’d several stakeholders as well as Fiona Godlee, the editor-in-chief of The BMJ and editorial director of...