David Tuller: Trial By Error: My Letter to Kate Kelland

[MSEsperanza]

David Tuller: Trial By Error: My Letter to Kate Kelland

This morning I sent the following e-mail to Kate Kelland, the Reuters reporter who wrote last week’s story about horrible patients and horrible me, and about how all this horribleness is affecting Professor Michael Sharpe. I cc’d Professor Racaniello and the two Reuters editors listed on the story.

Hi, Kate–

Congratulations on last week’s piece. It was late August when we met in New York, so I was wondering when it would appear. While I will be responding at greater length in the near future, I wanted to raise two issues of immediate concern.

http://www.virology.ws/2019/03/18/trial-by-error-my-letter-to-kate-kelland/

 

[Alvin]

@ScottTriGuy commented

And now the School of Journalism can use Reuter’s Kate Kelland as a case study of terrible media outlets and journalists.

That is an excellent idea

 

[Cheshire]

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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story misstated where David Tuller published a 15,000-word review of the PACE study. It was published on the Virology Blog hosted by Columbia University professor Vincent Racaniello.

 

[Barry]

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That's good. Looks like the editors have felt obliged to take notice . They will hopefully find this could become a habit for this article, and may be be a bit more diligent in future.

Needs to be archived.

 

[Esther12]

Originally: "Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it via the website of a Berkeley colleague."

At the current Reuters link: "Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it via a website hosted by a Columbia University professor."

On archive (even after the new update at a different address? - I don't understand tbh):

"Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it."

http://archive.fo/V9WTA#selection-601.326-601.377

I like the one that's so blunt - like even just the fact it's hosted by a Columbia University professor is too positive a thing to bear to say about Tuller's work!

 

[MSEsperanza]

Just added

"Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story misstated where David Tuller published a 15,000-word review of the PACE study. It was published on the Virology Blog hosted by Columbia University professor Vincent Racaniello."

At the current Reuters link: "Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it via a website hosted by a Columbia University professor."

Is this the only amendment?

So they still describe David Tuller as a "former journalist", give the impression that he has no current professional affiliation with the University of California, Berkley, and is only "crowdfunded by a global band of CFS/ME sufferers, their families and patient activists"--and this "band" enables Tuller to be a full-time online activist who since October 2015 has worked on nothing else than "more than 140 blog posts amounting to tens of thousands of words attacking studies of psychological treatments and conferences"?

Wow, that's really the high art of biased journalism.

Dear Kate Kelland, dear Reuters editors, in case you never listened to a "global band of CFS/ME sufferers" and their carers, here's your chance:



Edited for clarity.

 

[Sly Saint]

on Kate Kellands twitter feed


maybe a reply that the article has been amended and further corrections to inaccuracies and false statements will likely be necessary in the near future.

 

[Esther12]

Originally: "Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it via the website of a Berkeley colleague."

At the current Reuters link: "Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it via a website hosted by a Columbia University professor."

On archive (even after the new update at a different address? - I don't understand tbh):

"Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it."

http://archive.fo/V9WTA#selection-601.326-601.377

I like the one that's so blunt - like even just the fact it's hosted by a Columbia University professor is too positive a thing to bear to say about Tuller's work!

This is the version here:

Tuller has also posted a 15,000 word review of it.

http://news.trust.org/item/20190313104914-k085q

It says: "(Edits 31st par to remove reference to website)"

 

[MSEsperanza]

Just tried to save Clare Gerada's Tweet to the Internet Archive -- but not sure if it worked?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210604122527/https://twitter.com/ClareGerada/status/1052636273180139520?s=20

edit:

Spoiler: Archived Tweet

And now need a break.

 

[Invisible Woman]

sad we are entering an era of bullying scientists

Hmmmm....
1. I don't think we can honestly call them scientists. Researchers, yes, although not very good ones. Doctors, yes, although again....

2. I do agree we have entered an era of bullying researchers, if by that you mean some unscrupulous researchers use poor methodology and spun results to further their own ends. Bullying by gaslighting and smearing patients. Bullying by use of taunting and inappropriate language..... "Activist" to describe a group of hundreds of thousands of individuals too ill to work, many of them too ill to even brush their teeth and feed themselves.