Trial By Error: Journalist Ryan Prior Discusses His Upcoming Book on Long Covid, The Long Haul
By David Tuller, DrPH CNN journalist Ryan Prior is the author of an upcoming book on long Covid called The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever. Ryan, who is 32, has struggled with ME/CFS for half of his life—he first got sick in October, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 13, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Long Covid ryan prior the long haul Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Exchange of Letters With Bristol About Professor Crawley ’ s Uncorrected Ethics Statements
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently reported that seven papers from Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged pediatrician and grant magnet, do not appear to have been corrected, as requested almost three years ago by a report of an investigation into her work. The investigation was commissioned by Bristol along with the […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Letter to Psych Medicine About Professor Chalder ’ s Flawed Systematic Review
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this week, I wrote about the bogus systematic review of treatment trials for “chronic fatigue syndrome” published this month by Professor Trudie Chalder in Psychological Medicine. In many respects, as I noted, this journal functions a an in-house marketing or public relations organ for members of the CBT/GET ideological brigades, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 9, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chalder Psychological Medicine systematic review Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Another CBT/GET Marketing Document Masquerading as Research from Professor Chalder
By David Tuller, DrPH It’s another month, and here’s another worthless paper from Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s factually and statistically challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). In her desperate effort to prove that the treatment paradigm for ME/CFS combining CBT and graded exercise therapy (GET) is evidence-based, she has now published a paper […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chalder Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Few Things of Interest I Read This Week
By David Tuller, DrPH Miriam Tucker on Long Covid in WebMd The always reliable Miriam Tucker, who has frequently covered ME/CFS for Medscape and other publications, has just written a piece for WebMD called “Long COVID Mimics Other Post-Viral Conditions.” The article covers some of the similarities in symptoms between long Covid and ME/CFS and […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 2, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized employment Long Covid miriam Tucker zeynep tufecki Source Type: blogs
Transmission of Monkeypox Virus Through Contaminated Objects
by Gertrud U. Rey Recent news headlines are fueling public fears about possible transmission of monkeypox virus through contact with contaminated objects like bedding or clothing. However, data generated using environmental sampling methods indicate that the likelihood of this type of transmission is very low. In a study involving a two-person household in Utah in […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey contaminated objects direct contact fomites infectious virus monkeypox monkeypox virus PCR transmission viable viral culture viral DNA Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Letter to Bristol and the Health Research Authority About Uncorrected Crawley Papers
By David Tuller, DrPH In 2019, a report from the University of Bristol and the UK’s Health Research Authority recommended corrections to the ethics statements of eleven studies. Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol’s ethically and methodologically challenged star researcher and grant magnet, was the main author and/or principal investigator of all eleven papers. In a post […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 30, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley Health research authority Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Professor Crawley Was Asked to Correct Ethics Statements in 11 Papers; 7 Are Still Uncorrected
By David Tuller, DrPH A few years ago, a valued source alerted me to a strange quirk in the work of pediatrician Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged star researcher and grant magnet. Not all tips are reliable, but this one definitely was. As it turned out, Professor Crawley had–based on a single […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 29, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley ethics review Health research authority Source Type: blogs
TWiV 931: Driven to immunodistraction
TWiV reviews the genetic characterization of a new strain of type 2 oral polio vaccine and its implications for eradication, and how a polymorphism in humans comprising a single amino acid change in an antibody molecule regulates vaccine elicitation of broadly neutralizing antibodies against influenza virus HA. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 28, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology broadly neutralizing antibody influenza virus neurovirulence nOPV2 poliovirus vaccine viral viruses wastewater Source Type: blogs
TWiV 930: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses antibody response against nonpoliovirus enteroviruses, clinical presentation and virological assessment of confirmed human monkeypox virus cases in Spain, object and surface contamination with monkeypox virus, monkeypox virus infection in humans across 16 countries, clinical characteristics of ambulatory and hospitalized patients with monkeypox virus infection, compassionate use of Tecovirimat […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Ryan Prior on Biden ’ s Plans; Physician with Long Covid; Writers Discuss ME ’ s Impact
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve sometimes highlighted interesting or enlightening articles, blog posts, and podcasts I’ve read or heard/watched. I’m trying to make sure to keep up with that effort. That’s not always easy, given the volume of material now being produced about ME/CFS, long Covid, so-called “medically unexplained symptoms,” and related issues. But here […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized ryan prior Writers with ME Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: In a Tub Talk, Therapist Damon Jacobs and I Discuss ME/CFS, Long Covid & AIDS Activism
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today, I posted a conversation about post-exertional malaise featuring Todd Davenport, a professor of physical therapy at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. I’d conducted the interview in April but had forgotten to post it here. And here’s another video I forgot to post—what I assume is the […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized damon jacobs tub talk Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Todd Davenport on Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation in Long Covid and ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH Todd Davenport is a professor of physical therapy at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He is also part of a research team from Workwell Foundation, an exercise physiology center in Ripon, California, that pioneered the use of 2-day cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to document the core ME and ME/CFS symptom […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Letter to Journal Brain About Paper Claiming POTS Is a “ Functional Psychogenic Disorder ”
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently criticized a study from New York University’s neurology department. The investigators wildly over-interpreted their findings in order to argue that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, is a “functional psychogenic disorder.” This morning, I sent a letter to Brain, the journal that published the paper, on behalf of several […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 17, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized brain functional psychogenic disorder NYU POTS Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: King ’ s College London Still Promoting Discredited CBT/GET/Deconditioning Paradigm
By David Tuller, DrPH I have written a few posts about how various health entities have so far not changed the information about ME/CFS on their websites or acknowledged the revised recommendations published by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) last October. In addition to replacing the name CFS/ME with ME/CFS, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 9, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
