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Trial By Error: Australian GP Group Recommends “Incremental Physical Activity” for “CFS/ME” Patients

By David Tuller, DrPH What’s going on with Aussie members of the graded exercise therapy cult? (Oops!—I meant the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a trade and professional organization. Sorry!) In 2019, I wrote about the organization’s guidance for “CFS/ME.” This guidance, published in 2015, was part of the group’s Handbook of Non-Drug...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 00:01
Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Rebuke of the Biopsychosocial Brigades–Text Version

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I spoke with George Monbiot, a British investigative reporter and political activist, who has been a columnist for The Guardian for almost 30 years. He and I have been in occasional communication in recent years over an issue of mutual interest—the scandalous mistreatment of patients suffering from the devastating illness...

Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:30
Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Critique of the “Biopsychosocial” Approach to ME/CFS and Long Covid

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today I spoke with George Monbiot, a British investigative reporter and political activist, who has been a columnist for The Guardian for almost 30 years. He and I have been in occasional communication in recent years over an issue of mutual interest—the scandalous mistreatment of patients suffering from the devastating...

Thu Apr 18, 2024 14:40
Trial By Error: Senator Bernie Sanders’ $10 Billion Long Covid “Moonshot” Proposal

By David Tuller, DrPH On April 9th, Senator Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who votes with the Democrats, unveiled an ambitious $10 billion “moonshot” proposal to fund research into Long Covid. The proposal has raised hopes among patients with the disease or cluster of diseases now being called ME/CFS—as well as concerns that …...

Sun Apr 14, 2024 15:47
Trial By Error: An Interview with the Authors of the European ME Alliance Survey of 11,000+ Patients

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this month, the European Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Alliance (EMEA) released a 235-page report on a survey of ME/CFS patients in Europe titled “Same disease, different approaches and experiences.”  The authors are Arild Angelsen, a board member of the Norwegian ME Association and a professor at the School of Economics and...

Sun Apr 14, 2024 14:49
Trial By Error: REGAIN Team Responds to Criticism with Unconvincing Defenses of Methodological Missteps

By David Tuller, DrPH In recent weeks, I have been urging The BMJ to correct a flawed University of Warwick trial of an online mental and physical health rehab program for people with prolonged symptoms at least three months after hospitalization for Covid-19. The primary outcome was health-related quality of life, assessed with a measure … Trial By...

Fri Apr 12, 2024 15:20

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