trial by error

My Letter to LP Study's Senior Author I e-mailed the following letter to Professor Montgomery on Sunday evening (California time), with the subject heading “Retrospective Registration and Outcome-Swapping in Lightning Process Trial.” I cc’d Dr Nick Brown, editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/12/26/trial-by-error-talk-is-cheap-patients-tell-nih/

Australian Draft Report Seeks Comments In an eagerly awaited draft report, an Australian advisory committee on ME/CFS has called for the development of up-to-date domestic clinical guidelines and an increase in biomedical research into the pathophysiology of the illness. The draft report, which...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/12/12/trial-by-error-the-view-from-norway/

Trial By Error: And Cochrane Makes Another Move… 10 December 2018 By David Tuller, DrPH http://www.virology.ws/2018/12/10/trial-by-error-and-cochrane-makes-another-move/ Yet another interesting development has taken place at Cochrane—and this new development again suggests that things there...

BMJ and Bristol's Ethics Exemptions Earlier today, I sent the following e-mail to Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ. I cc’d Carol Monaghan MP, Darren Jones MP, and Nicky Morgan MP. I also cc’d Teresa Allen of the Health Research Authority.

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Some thoughts about NICE In fact, a robust debate about ME/CFS treatments rooted in scientific principles would be welcome, since such a debate has been largely absent in the UK. But it would require the NICE committee to include, in addition to a group of apparent GET/CBT proponents, a...

How to avoid ethical review I have written many posts about BMJ Open’s 2011 school absence study, which reported that school absence records could be useful in identifying children with chronic fatigue syndrome. However, for reasons not yet adequately explained, the investigators exempted the...

An Australian Exchange with Professor Sharpe Below is an exchange between members of the Australian ME/CFS community and Professor Michael Sharpe. The open letter from patients and advocates was prompted by a tweet this week from Professor Sharpe that many considered offensive. He has since...

Yet another letter about the Lightning Process study This morning I sent the following letter to Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of The BMJ and editorial director of BMJ. I cc-d Carol Monaghan MP, Darren Jones MP, and Nicky Morgan MP.

Trial By Error: Three Years On... Three years ago this month, Virology Blog published my 15,000-word investigation of the PACE trial, so this seems like a good time for a bit of reflection. I certainly didn’t expect this saga to drag on this long. I’ve kept at it mainly because of the UK...

Where's My Apology, BMJ Open? This morning I sent the following e-mail to Dr Fiona Godlee, the editor-in-chief of The BMJ and editorial director of BMJ. I cc’d Professor Vincent Racaniello, the host of Virology Blog, and Carol Monaghan MP, who sits on the House of Commons Health and Technology...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/10/23/a-statement-in-support-of-cochrane/ A letter signed by 40+ academics in support of Cochrane decision to withdraw the review of exercise for ME

http://www.virology.ws/2018/10/19/my-letter-to-organizer-of-4th-columbia-psychosomatics-conference/

Cochrane Withdraws Flawed Exercise Review Cochrane has decided to withdraw, at least for now, its fatally flawed review of exercise treatments for ME/CFS—or CFS, as the review calls the illness. This review, which reported that graded exercise therapy was an effective treatment, was first...

ME/CFS is not a psychosomatic illness W. Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity and the Center for Solutions for ME/CFS at Columbia University, has written the following letter several days before the Fourth Annual Conference on Psychosomatics at Columbia University this...

Latest from David Tuller: After I posted yesterday’s blog about Per Fink’s upcoming appearance at the fourth annual Columbia Psychosomatic Conference being held this weekend, I received the following e-mail from Columbia’s Alla Landa. She is an assistant professor of “clinical psychology in...

Per Fink in New York Someone uninformed or stupid or maybe both decided to invite Danish physician Per Fink to present at a conference on so-called psychosomatic medicine being held this weekend at Columbia University

New Trial by Error by @dave30th