trial by error

My latest letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood I sent the following e-mail today to Dr Nick Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the journal that published the Lightning Process study a year ago. I cc’d Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, which publishes...

Trial By Error: The CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference So I attended the CFS/ME Research Collaborative conference two weeks ago in Bristol. The two-day event was a refreshingly PACE-free zone–as far as I could tell, I was the only person who mentioned that piece of crap in public...

Trial By Error: The Open Letter to Netflix about Afflicted Blog post contains a short intro and the letter itself. David Tuller has added his name to the list of signatories.

So what's happening with the MAGENTA trial? I’ll be in Bristol later this week for the CFS/ME Research Collaborative’s annual conference. I was not welcome last year, since I was at that point engaged in harshly criticizing the organization for its unwillingness to acknowledge that its deputy...

The Cochrane Controversy Cochrane–formerly called the Cochrane Collaboration–is respected worldwide for its systematic reviews of medical treatments. These reviews are often cited as the definitive source of information about treatment efficacy and safety. In taking on the thankless task of...

Professor Edwards' Letter to MRC's Fiona Watt Professor Edwards signed the open letter to The Lancet. He originally wrote his own letter to Professor Watt in confidence. Since she has now strongly endorsed PACE in her letter to The Times, he has given me permission to post what he wrote.

Trial By Error: Another Letter to BMJ's Dr Godlee Last week, The Times ran an article about the open letter to The Lancet concerning the PACE trial, quickly followed by a piece in The BMJ. This morning, I e-mailed the following letter to Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of The BMJ and editorial...

My letter to Red Whale/GP Update Earlier today I sent the following letter to the e-mail address I found at the website of Red Whale/GP Update, which recently disseminated a recruitment ad for FITNET-NHS. I blogged about it on Monday. I cc’d officials at the Health Research Authority, the...

Trial By Error: FITNET- NHS Recruitment Ad Promotes "Recovery" A British medical education company has recently disseminated a recruitment ad for a high-profile pediatric study of treatment for what it calls CFS/ME. The recruitment ad’s headline describes the intervention being investigated as...

The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal Not long ago, Sir Simon scored an own goal by enticing a childhood buddy to enter the PACE debate. That buddy, attorney and social commentator Mike Godwin, soon pronounced the trial—which Sir Simon had called “a thing of beauty”–to be “so profoundly...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/08/13/trial-by-error-open-letter-to-the-lancet-version-3-0/

This thread has been formed by merging several threads about the Mayo clinic and it's approach to treating ME/CFS Supposed treatments for ME CFS - plus overview by Mayo clinic https://www.drugs.com/condition/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs.html Content supplied by Mayo clinic...

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/