Trial By Error

Trial By Error is a blog written by Dr David Tuller about ME/CFS with a particular focus on the UK PACE trial. It appears on the Virology blog sponsored by Dr. Vincent Racaniello.

2011

 * Nov 23, 2011 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale

2015

 * Oct 21, 2015 - TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study
 * Oct 22, 2015 - TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (second installment)
 * Oct 23, 2015 - TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (final installment)
 * Oct 30, 2015 - David Tuller responds to the PACE Investigators
 * Oct 30, 2015 - PACE trial investigators respond to David Tuller
 * Nov 4, 2015 - Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Study Really Adopt a ‘Strict Criterion’ for Recovery?
 * Nov 9, 2015 - Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s Sister Trial been Disappeared and Forgotten?
 * Nov 13, 2015 - An open letter to Dr. Richard Horton and The Lancet
 * Nov 17, 2015 - Trial by error, Continued: PACE Team’s Work for Insurance Companies Is “Not Related” to PACE. Really?
 * Dec 17, 2015 - A request for data from the PACE trial

2016

 * Jan 4 2016 - Trial By Error, Continued: Questions for Dr. White and his PACE Colleagues
 * Jan 7 2016 - Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Trial Really Prove that Graded Exercise Is Safe? (with Julie Rehmeyer)
 * Jan 19 2016 - At least we’re not vexatious
 * Jan 19 2016 - Trial By Error, Continued: More Nonsense from The Lancet Psychiatry
 * Feb 1 2016 - Trial By Error, Continued: A Few Words About “Harassment”
 * Feb 10 2016 - An open letter to The Lancet, again
 * May 23 2016 - An open letter to PLoS One.
 * July 10, 2016 - TWiV 397 podcast with Dr. Tuller and Dr Racaniello (1:03)
 * Aug 29 2016 - Once Again, Lancet Stumbles on PACE
 * Sep 1, 2016 - Trial By Error, Continued: My Questions for Lancet Editor Richard Horton
 * Sept 6, 2016 - Open letter to Queen Mary University of London about PACE
 * Sept 22, 2016 - Trial By Error, Continued: The Real Data
 * Oct 27, 2016 - Worse Than the Disease

2017

 * Mar 13, 2017 - An open letter to Psychological Medicine about “recovery” and the PACE trial
 * Mar 23, 2017 - An open letter to Psychological Medicine, again!
 * May 3, 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: My Libelous Blogging on Virology Blog
 * May 8 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: An Open Letter to the Board of the CFS/ME Research Collaborative
 * May 10 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: CMRC to Virology Blog: 'F**k Off!'
 * May 15 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: The CMRC Affirms Full Support for Libelous Esther
 * May 22, 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: ME Research UK Drops Out of CMRC
 * Jun 1, 2017 - David Tuller’s Fundraiser
 * Jun 4, 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: My “Tear It Up” Talk at Invest in ME
 * Jun 7, 2017 - Trial By Error, Continued: Julie Rehmeyer’s Journey “Through the Shadowlands”
 * Jun 14, 2017 - Trial by Error, Continued: My Letter to the University of Bristol
 * Jun 19, 2017 - Trial by Error, Continued: University of Bristol Responds, Sort Of
 * Jun 24, 2017 - Trial by Error, Continued: Is PACE a Case of Research Misconduct?
 * Jun 28, 2017 - Trial by Error, Continued: More on Graded Exercise from Peter White and The Lancet (see GETSET trial)
 * Jul 10, 2017 - Trial By Error: The CDC Drops CBT/GET
 * Jul 17, 2017 - Trial by Error: The NICE guidelines, and more on the CDC
 * Jul 24, 2017 - Trial by Error: NICE Declines to Disclose Names of Experts
 * Jul 31, 2017 - Trial by Error: NICE Rejects My FOI Request
 * Aug 2, 2017 - Trial by Error: Retired PACE Investigator Peter White and Swiss Re
 * Aug 2, 2017 - Trial by Error: The Science Media Centre’s Desperate Efforts to Defend PACE
 * Aug 14, 2017 - Trial by Error: My E-Mail Exchange With NICE Chief Executive
 * Aug 28, 2017 - Trial By Error: No Ethical Review of Crawley School Absence Study
 * Aug 30, 2017 - Trial By Error: Seeking More Details on Crawley School Absence Study
 * Sep 11, 2017 - Trial By Error: The NICE “Topic Expert” Reports
 * Sep 18, 2017 - Trial By Error: MEGA’s Latest Failure
 * Sep 25, 2017 - Trial By Error: NICE Rejects Current Guidance, Plans “Full Update”
 * Oct 3, 2017 - Trial By Error: NIH Grants $2.1 Million to UK Biobank!
 * Oct 17, 2017 - Trial By Error: Another Letter to NICE’s Sir Andrew Dillon
 * Oct 23, 2017 - Trial By Error: Current NICE Guidance Stands, For Now
 * Nov 13, 2017 - Trial By Error: The Surprising New BMJ Best Practice Guide
 * Nov 15, 2017 - Trial By Error: What’s Going On, BMJ Best Practice?
 * Nov 20, 2017 - Trial By Error: My Brief Encounter with Professor Crawley
 * Nov 22, 2017- Trial By Error: Hey Bristol, Where Is My Cease and Desist Letter?
 * Nov 29, 2017 - Trial By Error: The Crawley Chronicles, Continued
 * Dec 4, 2017 - Trial By Error: My One-Sided Correspondence with Professor Crawley
 * Dec 13, 2017 - Trial By Error: The SMILE Trial’s Undisclosed Outcome-Swapping
 * Dec 18, 2017 - Trial By Error: My Questions for the Science Media Centre
 * Dec 23, 2017 - Trial By Error: Bristol’s Complaint to Berkeley
 * Dec 27, 2017 - Trial By Error: A Sneak Preview of Next Week’s Post

2018

 * Jan 2, 2018 - Trial By Error: The School Absence Study, Revisited
 * Jan 3, 2018 - Trial By Error: Cope to BMJ Open: More Details Please
 * Jan 15, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Six-Month Review
 * Jan 17, 2018 - Trial By Error: Professor Crawley’s Bogus BuzzFeed Claims
 * Jan 30, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
 * Feb 5, 2018 - Trial By Error: Letter to British Journal of Sports Medicine from CPET Experts
 * Feb 5, 2018 - Trial By Error: Letter to British Journal of Sports Medicine from CPET Experts
 * Feb 13, 2018 - Trial By Error: QMUL and FOI; Nature and Cochrane; the Pineapple Fund
 * Feb 19, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Letter to BMJ Open
 * Feb 26, 2018 - Trial By Error: Our Exchange of Views with BMJ Open
 * Mar 5, 2018 - Trial By Error: News About My Plans
 * Mar 7, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Exchange With Archives of Disease in Childhood
 * Mar 7, 2018 - Trial By Error: Yesterday’s News from the CFS/ME Research Collaborative
 * Mar 12, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Dutch Review; My Trip; Bristol’s Silence
 * Mar 14, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Australian Situation, and Professor Crawley’s New Position
 * Mar 21, 2018 - Trial By Error: Checking in from Melbourne and Canberra…
 * Mar 26, 2018 - Trial By Error: Yet Another Go-Round with BMJ Open
 * Mar 27, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Time in Canberra
 * Mar 28, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Scottish MP Carol Monaghan
 * Apr 2, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Berkeley-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign
 * Apr 2, 2018 - Trial By Error: Our Latest Tango with BMJ Open…
 * Apr 4, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Terrific Piece about ME/CFS on Australian TV
 * Apr 4, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Post About Andrew Lloyd
 * Apr 11, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Australian Tour, Continued
 * Apr 16, 2018 - Trial By Error: Two Interview Podcasts, and “Conflicts of Interest”
 * Apr 18, 2018 - Trial By Error: Professor Michael Sharpe’s Gaffe on Australian Radio
 * Apr 24, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Shopping Bag Study; and New York State’s Revamped Website
 * Apr 24, 2018 - Trial By Error: Andrew Lloyd’s Past Endorsement of PACE
 * Apr 25, 2018 - Trial By Error: Goodbye, Australia; and Two Updates
 * May 2, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Leonard Jason, on Case Definition
 * May 7, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Visits with Alem Matthees
 * May 11, 2018 - Trial By Error: May 12th-International ME Awareness Day
 * May 14, 2018 - Trial By Error : Australia’s Online GET/CBT Education Program
 * May 23, 2018 - By Error: More on the CDC; Reader’s Digest; and BBC’s Newsbeat
 * May 28, 2018 - Trial By Error: NICE’s Consideration of the Lightning Process
 * May 29, 2018 - Trial By Error: My 2011 NY Times Exchange With the PACE PIs
 * Jun 4, 2018 - Trial By Error: BMJ Still “Looking Into” Lightning Process Paper
 * Jun 5, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Letter to MP Monaghan About BMJ Studies
 * Jun 6, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Letter to the Science Media Centre about BMJ Study
 * Jun 6, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards
 * Jun 11, 2018 - Trial By Error: More Letters About BMJ’s Flawed Pediatric Studies
 * Jun 13, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Curriculum for Treating CFS with CBT
 * Jun 18, 2018 - Trial By Error: Sir Simon Scores an Own Goal
 * Jun 18, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Letter to NICE About the IAPT Program
 * Jun 19, 2018 - Trial By Error: An Open Letter to The Lancet, Two Years On
 * Jun 25, 2018 - Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Intemperate Remarks–For Whom Is He Speaking?
 * Jun 25, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Exchange With Professor Bishop
 * Jul 2, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Fiona Godlee
 * Jul 2, 2018 - Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Pre-Hearing Briefing for Monaghan
 * Jul 9, 2018 - Trial By Error: Do All Clinical Trial Experts Love PACE?
 * Jul 10, 2018 - Trial By Error: Yet Another Appeal to The Lancet, With More On Board
 * Jul 11, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee
 * Jul 11, 2018 - Trial By Error: Waiting for Godlee
 * Jul 16, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Contentless “Editor’s Note” About the Lightning Process Trial
 * Jul 30, 2018 - Trial By Error: The CDC’s Update for Healthcare Providers
 * Aug 15, 2018 - Trial By Error: The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal
 * Aug 20, 2018 - Trial By Error: More Mayo, Please…
 * Aug 22, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Red Whale/GP Update
 * Aug 27, 2018 - Trial By Error: Another Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee
 * Sep 3, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Cochrane Controversy
 * Sept 17, 2018 - Trial By Error: So What’s Happening with the MAGENTA Trial?
 * Sept 18, 2018 - Trial By Error: Bruce Levin on “How Not to Conduct a Randomized Clinical Trial
 * Sept 24, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Open Letter to Netflix about Afflicted
 * Oct 1, 2018 - Trial By Error: The CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference
 * Oct 8, 2018 - Trial By Error: My Latest Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
 * Oct 10, 2018 - Trial By Error: My First Post on the IAPT Program
 * Oct 16, 2018 - Trial By Error: Per Fink in New York
 * Oct 17, 2018 - Trial By Error: The Psychosomatic Conference’s Pathetic Response
 * Oct 19, 2018 - Trial By Error: A Reminder about Saturday’s Columbia Protest
 * Oct 19, 2018 - Trial By Error: Cochrane Decides to Withdraw Flawed Exercise Review
 * Oct 23, 2018 - A Statement in Support of Cochrane
 * Oct 24, 2018 - Trial By Error: Where’s My Apology, BMJ Open?
 * Oct 28, 2018 - Trial By Error: Three Years On…
 * Nov 7, 2018 - Trial By Error: Yet Another Letter About the Lightning Process Study
 * Nov 8, 2018 - Trial By Error: An Australian Exchange with Professor Sharpe
 * Nov 12, 2018 - Trial By Error: How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review
 * Nov 14, 2018 - Trial by Error: Video of October Newry Talk, with Brian Hughes
 * Nov 19, 2018 - Trial By Error: Some Thoughts About NICE
 * Dec 3, 2018 - Trial By Error: Some Good News on Cochrane
 * Dec 4, 2018 - Trial By Error: How BMJ Enabled Bristol’s Ethics Exemptions
 * Dec 10, 2018 - Trial By Error: And Cochrane Makes Another Move…

2019

 * Jan 7, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter to LP Study’s Senior Author
 * Jan 7, 2019 - Trial By Error: More Thoughts on the Interferon Study
 * Jan 21, 2019 - Trial By Error: Carol Monaghan Scores Another Parliamentary Debate
 * Jan 22, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Six-Month Review
 * Jan 22, 2019 - Trial By Error: S4ME Summary for Week of January 14th
 * Jan 23, 2019 - Trial By Error: Action For ME’s Employment Advice
 * Jan 28, 2019 - Trial by Error: Steve Brine's Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME
 * Jan 28, 2019 - Trial by Error: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham about METRIC
 * Jan 31, 2019 - Trial By Error: Some Thoughts About an Upcoming Article
 * Jan 31, 2019 - Trial By Error: Bristol Investigating Crawley Papers
 * Jan 31, 2019 - Trial By Error: The Reporter’s Questions for Professor Racaniello
 * Feb 1, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Bit More About Bristol’s Investigation
 * Feb 3, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Recap of the School Absence Study
 * Feb 5, 2019 - Trial By Error: And Another Prebuttal…
 * Feb 6, 2019 - Trial By Error: HRA Report Does Not Vindicate PACE
 * Feb 12, 2019 - Trial By Error: BMJ Amends Last Week’s PACE Article
 * Feb 13, 2019 - Trial By Error: Re-visiting My Questions for PACE Professors
 * Feb 13, 2019 - Trial By Error: Spotila’s Take on NIH Grant Reviewers
 * Feb 18, 2019 - Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Retraction Requests
 * Feb 18, 2019 - Trial By Error: Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes
 * Feb 20, 2019 - Trial By Error: Cochrane Update, and Caroline Struthers’ Latest Letter
 * Feb 25, 2019 - Trial By Error: The Cost of MUS
 * Mar 04, 2019 - Trial By Error: Who Has the School Study Documents?
 * Mar 06, 2019 - Trial By Error: Stupid Studies
 * Mar 11, 2019 - Trial By Error: Kaiser Permanente Changes Course
 * Mar 12, 2019 - Trial By Error: Cochrane’s Report on Courtney’s Complaint
 * Mar 18, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Hotopf About Bristol’s School Absence Study
 * Mar 18, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Kate Kelland
 * Mar 25, 2019 - Trial By Error: The CDC’s Pathetic Response to Reuters
 * Apr 01, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Bit More on Kaiser Permanente
 * Apr 01, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Berkeley Crowdfunding Appeal
 * Apr 02, 2019 - Trial By Error: This Year’s US Clinician Summit
 * Apr 08, 2019 - Trial By Error: Crowdfunding, Week 1
 * Apr 09, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Latest Letter to Bristol
 * Apr 15, 2019 - Trial By Error: Crowdfunding, Week 2; and more Sharpe and Chalder
 * Apr 18, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Reuters Update
 * Apr 21, 2019 - Trial By Error: Revisiting the Reuters Story
 * Apr 22, 2019 - Trial By Error: Crowdfunding Week 3 Matching Grant
 * Apr 23, 2019 - Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila on Collins’ NIH Talk
 * Apr 29, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Latest Letter to Bristol’s Legal Department
 * Apr 30, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Letter to Reuters
 * May 06, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter about MUS to the British Journal of General Practice
 * May 07, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Exchange with the British Journal of General Practice
 * May 13, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Most Recent Exchange with Bristol
 * May 14, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Crowdfunding Wrap-Up
 * May 16, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Plea to Fiona Godlee on a Familiar Topic
 * May 20, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Letter to the British Journal of General Practice
 * May 20, 2019 - Trial By Error: The Lightning Process Is “Effective”? Really?
 * May 22, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Latest Letter on The Lightning Process Study; and an Update
 * May 29, 2019 - Trial By Error: British Journal of General Practice Agrees to Correction about MUS
 * Jun 03, 2019 - Trial By Error: Professor Edwards’ Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee About the LP Study
 * Jun 03, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Freedom of Information Request to Bristol About LP Study
 * Jun 03, 2019 - Trial By Error: Time to Retract the LP Study; Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
 * Jun 03, 2019 - Trial By Error: Re-Visiting My Questions for the Science Media Centre about Bristol’s LP Study
 * Jun 05, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Follow-Up Follow-Up with Dr Segal about LP Study Citation
 * Jun 05, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Second Letter to LP Study’s Senior Author
 * Jun 10, 2019 - Trial By Error: Hey BJGP, Where’s That Correction about the Cost of MUS?
 * Jun 11, 2019 - Trial By Error: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls
 * Jun 12, 2019 - Trial by Error: A Letter to Bristol about my Recent FOI Request; Update Added
 * Jun 19, 2019 - Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila’s Latest NIH Funding Fact-Check
 * Jun 24, 2019 - Trial By Error: Another Review Mentions LP Study and Prompts More Letters
 * Jun 26, 2019 - Trial By Error: An Update about the Pediatric MUS Systematic Review
 * Jul 01, 2019 - Trial By Error: FOI Response from Bristol about LP Study; Correction in BJGP about MUS
 * Jul 01, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham about the Cost of MUS
 * Jul 08, 2019 - Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on MUS and Bermingham; My Letter to Professor Payne
 * Jul 10, 2019 - Trial By Error: Mary Dimmock on CDC’s New Evidence Review
 * Jul 15, 2019 - Trial By Error: Our Exchange with BMJ Journal about “Correction” of LP Study
 * Jul 16, 2019 - Trial By Error: NHS ME/CFS Clinics Lax on Treatment Harms, Study Finds
 * Jul 29, 2019 - Trial By Error: More GET Drivel from Australia
 * Aug 13, 2019 - Trial By Error: An Ill-Informed Article in The Guardian
 * Aug 19, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Interview with Melbourne’s Dr Don Lewis
 * Aug 21, 2019 - Trial By Error: Joan McParland’s Lightning Process Experience
 * Aug 28, 2019 - Trial By Error: An Open Letter to Dr Godlee about BMJ’s Ethically Bankrupt Actions
 * Sep 03, 2019 - Trial By Error: Calls for Retraction of the LP Study
 * Sep 04, 2019 - Trial By Error: More on Cochrane’s New Risk of Bias Tool
 * Sep 09, 2019 - Trial By Error: More Experts Urge Godlee to Retract Lightning Process Study
 * Sep 11, 2019 - Trial By Error: Experts Send More Tough Letters to Dr Godlee
 * Sep 16, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chalder about the PRINCE Trial
 * Sep 16, 2019 - Trial By Error: Another Batch of Letters To Dr Godlee on BMJ’s LP Study Mess
 * Sep 18, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Open about False MUS Claim
 * Sep 24, 2019 - Trial By Error: What’s Up With Cochrane’s Exercise Review?
 * Oct 02, 2019 - Trial By Error: Where Is Bristol’s Review of Professor Crawley’s Ethics Missteps?
 * Oct 09, 2019 - Trial By Error: More on the Revised Cochrane Exercise Review
 * Oct 21, 2019 - Trial By Error: Bristol’s Report Due Soon; My Oxford Talk
 * Oct 28, 2019 - Trial By Error: The HRA’s Letter about the Investigation of Bristol Research
 * Oct 29, 2019 - Trial By Error: “Bristol, It Is Time to Withdraw Your Complaints to Berkeley”
 * Oct 30, 2019 - Trial By Error: How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review (Reprise)
 * Nov 02, 2019 - Trial By Error: The HRA’s Letter to Berkeley’s Chancellor
 * Nov 13, 2019 - Trial By Error: My Talk in Newry, Northern Ireland
 * Nov 15, 2019 - Trial By Error: A Follow-Up Letter to Bristol
 * Nov 22, 2019 - Trial By Error: Open Letter to Dr Godlee about BMJ’s Ethically Bankrupt Actions (2)
 * Dec 02, 2019 - Trial By Error: Professor Jonathan Edwards’ View of ME
 * Dec 02, 2019 - Trial By Error: More Calls to Godlee for LP Study Retraction
 * Dec 06, 2019 - Trial By Error: Fiona Godlee Doubles Down on Lightning Process Study
 * Dec 10, 2019 - Trial By Error: Mayo Clinic’s Crappy Website
 * Dec 16, 2019 - Trial By Error: My STAT Opinion Piece on BMJ and Dr Godlee
 * Dec 16, 2019 - Trial By Error: Simon McGrath on Ron Davis on “something in the blood”
 * Dec 30, 2019 - Trial By Error: Shaky Evidence for Signs of Functional Neurological Disorders
 * Dec 31, 2019 - Trial By Error: My 2011 Exchange with White et al about Case Definition
 * Dec 24, 2019 - Trial By Error: PEM is Bad, and So Is Fukuda