Trial By Error: We Asked BMJ to Correct a Paper; BMJ Requested a Rapid Response; We Have Declined
Leave a Comment / By David Tuller / 24 March 2024 By David Tuller, DrPH Two weeks ago, I sent a letter to The BMJ on behalf of myself and 12 colleagues seeking a correction in a study published last month. The study, called Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme for adults with post-covid-19 condition (REGAIN study): … Trial By Error: We Asked BMJ to Correct a Paper; BMJ Requested a Rapid Response; We Have Declined Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 25, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Abbasi BMJ Long Covid REGAIN Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: David Putrino on 1) Australian Call to Scrap the Term “ Long Covid ” and 2) New Pre-Print on Sex Differences in LC
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, just in time for Long Covid Awareness Day on Friday, the chief health officer of the Australian state of Queensland, John Gerrard, declared that the term “Long Covid” should be dropped. He based his argument on Queensland survey data suggesting that rates of prolonged disability after Covid-19 are similar … Trial By Error: David Putrino on 1) Australian Call to Scrap the Term “Long Covid” and 2) New Pre-Print on Sex Differences in LC Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 19, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting on the NIH ’ s Findings and the Latest on the Genome-Wide Association Study Update
By David Tuller, DrPH When the US National Institutes of Health released its lengthy ME/CFS study last month with much fanfare and publicity, the London-based Science Media Centre asked Professor Chris Ponting, among other experts, to provide comment. The study–“Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome”–was published by Nature Communications. It included in-depth findings … Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting on the NIH’s Findings and the Latest on the Genome-Wide Association Study Update Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 18, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Calls Out the GET/CBT Charlatans and the Fraudulent PACE Trial
By David Tuller, DrPH In a blistering take-down published on Tuesday, Guardian columnist George Monbiot indicted Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor Michael Sharpe and the rest of the GET/CBT ideological brigades for their decades-long promotion of discredited theories about and bogus research into the cluster of illnesses now being called ME/CFS. Those theories and research … Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Calls Out the GET/CBT Charlatans and the Fraudulent PACE Trial Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 14, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Guardian monbiot PACE Sharpe Wessely Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction in Study of Long Covid Physical-and-Mental Rehabilitation Program
By David Tuller, DrPH Last month, The BMJ published a study of a rehab intervention for Long Covid in which the authors made claims that were not borne out by the data. The study was called “Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme for adults with post-covid-19 condition (REGAIN … Trial By Error: Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction in Study of Long Covid Physical-and-Mental Rehabilitation Program Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 11, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ Long Covid mcgregor warwick Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Will MAGENTA ’ s Null Results Finally End Professor Crawley ’ s Long ‘ Reign of Error ’ ?
By David Tuller, DrPH For years, Professor Esther Crawley, the University of Bristol’s methodologically and ethically challenged ME/CFS investigator, has hoovered up millions of pounds from public and private funders to support her misbegotten research. She achieved this success as a grant magnet despite abundant and easily available evidence that she was violating core principles … Trial By Error: Will MAGENTA’s Null Results Finally End Professor Crawley’s Long ‘Reign of Error’? Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley GET MAGENTA Source Type: blogs

Dogma Does Not Belong in Science
by Gertrud U. Rey According to established scientific dogma, infection of cells with HIV-1 leads to delivery of the viral capsid into the cell cytoplasm, followed by “uncoating” of the capsid to release the single-stranded RNA genome. A viral-encoded enzyme called reverse transcriptase then catalyzes the conversion of the viral RNA into a single strand … Dogma Does Not Belong in Science Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: An Interview with Neuroscientist Michael VanElzakker about the Just-Published and Long-Awaited NIH Study
By David Tuller, DrPH So, okay…The big enchilada from the US National Institutes of Health’s seven-year, $8-million, under-recruited and over-hyped study—”Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome”–was published last week in Nature Communications. It would be fair to describe the ensuing public debate over this massive text-and-data dump as spirited. (NIH press release here; … Trial By Error: An Interview with Neuroscientist Michael VanElzakker about the Just-Published and Long-Awaited NIH Study Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 28, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized effort preference NIH vanElzakker Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: New Long Covid Exercise-and-Therapy Study Claims Success Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings
By David Tuller, DrPH A new study of an online group physical and psychological rehabilitation program for Long Covid confirms once again that people given an intervention purporting to help them are more likely to tell investigators that they feel better than those given nothing of the kind. People, this is not a surprising result! … Trial By Error: New Long Covid Exercise-and-Therapy Study Claims Success Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Sarah Boothby Discusses Second Pre-Inquest Hearing into Death of Daughter Maeve from ME Complications
By David Tuller, DrPH Maeve Boothby O’Neill died of complications from ME in Exeter, England, in October, 2021, after three admissions to the local hospital. (I wrote about Maeve’s life and death last year for Codastory.com.) Since then, the family has been waiting for an inquest to be held into the circumstances of her death … Trial By Error: Sarah Boothby Discusses Second Pre-Inquest Hearing into Death of Daughter Maeve from ME Complications Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 15, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized death inquest Maeve Boothby O'Neill Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Leading FND Site Confirms Criticisms on Prevalence Outlined in Our Letter to Neurology Journal
By David Tuller, DrPH In two recent posts, here and here, I wrote about our letter on inflated prevalence claims for functional neurological disorder (FND) and about the response from the authors of the study we criticized. The 2021 article in NeuroImage: Clinical, “Neuroimaging in functional neurological disorder: state of the field and research agenda,” asserted … Trial By Error: Leading FND Site Confirms Criticisms on Prevalence Outlined in Our Letter to Neurology Journal Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 13, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized FND functional neurological disorder Jon Stone neuroImage: clinical Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Unconvincing Response to Letter on FND Prevalence Inflation
By David Tuller, DrPH As I wrote in a post the other day, the journal NeuroImage: Clinical has just published a letter from a group I organized about the misrepresentation of findings regarding the prevalence of functional neurological disorder (FND). They have also published a response from the authors of the article we criticized. The … Trial By Error: Unconvincing Response to Letter on FND Prevalence Inflation Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 12, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Finally, Our Letter on Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Is Published
By David Tuller, DrPH For more than a year, I have been criticizing experts in the field of functional neurological disorder for misrepresenting the findings of a seminal study, in effect tripling the reported prevalence rate of the condition. These untrue claims about the Scottish Neurological Symptoms Study (SNSS)—specifically, that the prevalence of FND among … Trial By Error: Finally, Our Letter on Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Is Published Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 9, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized conversion disorder FND FND prevalence Source Type: blogs

Let ’ s Talk About Measles
by Gertrud U. Rey Recent news headlines have been featuring multiple outbreaks of measles across the globe, and an announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dated January 25, 2024, also reported 23 confirmed cases in the US over the past month. These outbreaks happen every few years and are usually triggered by … Let’s Talk About Measles Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey basic reproductive number contagious herd immunity herd immunity threshold immune measles measles virus mmr vaccine outbreak R0 transmissibility transmissible vaccination Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Yet Another Meta-Analysis Purporting to Prove that CBT Is Effective for “ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ”
By David Tuller, DrPH I just wrote about how PACE was favorably cited in an article in Nature Reviews Cardiology. Last month, that piece of crap was also included as part of yet another meta-analysis that mushed together the findings from a load of bad papers and concluded that, collectively, they prove something or other. … Trial By Error: Yet Another Meta-Analysis Purporting to Prove that CBT Is Effective for “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 31, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT meta-analysis Source Type: blogs