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• Apr 20 – Null Results in Physiotherapy Trial for Functional Motor Disorder
• Apr 16 – New Zealand GP Group Disavows Lightning Process Endorsement; BBC’s Con or Cure Takes Skeptical Look at LP
• Apr 14 – My Visits with Alem Matthees, 2025
• Apr 14 – A 2015 Letter from the Countess of Mar to Suzanne O’Sullivan
• Apr 10 – Suzanne O’Sullivan’s “Psychosomatic” Mis-Diagnoses
• Apr 10 – Some Things I’ve Read Recently…
• Apr 4 – Lancet Letter Exchange on Claimed Success of “Persistent Physical Symptoms” Trial Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings
• Mar 31 – New Study Documents Iatrogenic Harm from Perceived Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Misdiagnoses of Rheumatic Diseases
• Mar 28 – BMJ’s Strange Response to Our Letter of Concern Regarding “Living Systematic Review” of Long Covid Interventions
• Mar 21 – A Reprise of a 2018 Post on My Visits with Alem Matthees
• Mar 20 – Our Presentation at the University of New South Wales
• Mar 18 – My 2018 Post on Andrew Lloyd’s Memory Lapses, Revisited
• Mar 16 – A Bogus Request for Corrections to Recent Post on a Long Covid Exercse Study
• Mar 3 – Australian Survey Seeks Input for New ME/CFS Guidelines
• Mar 2 – New Hyped-Up Lightning Process Study from New Zealand
• Mar 1 – Some Things I’ve Read Recently…
• Feb 28 – Trudie Chalder Is Co-Author on Another Bad Exercise Paper
• Feb 20 – A Letter to Cochrane’s Editor-in-Chief
• Feb 15 – GET Ideologues Try to Rebut Muscle Abnormality Study–and Fail
• Feb 14 – Some Things I’ve Read Recently…in STAT, The Sick Times, Van Der Zee’s Blog
• Feb 4 – My Article on the Cochrane Mess in The Sick Times
• Feb 2 – Professor Edwards’ Letter to BMJ on the Cochrane Mess
• Jan 29 – Norwegian Long Covid Rehab Trial Misrepresents Clinically Insignificant Findings As “Effective”
• Jan 23 – Cochrane’s Decision on Exercise Review is Hurting Patients, Says Longtime Insider
• Jan 20 – Interview with Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis, Founders/Editors of The Sick Times
• Jan 16 – BMJ Has Corrected the REGAIN Trial Paper–But Not the Editorial or Systematic Review Touting REGAIN’s Findings
• Jan 6 – Video of October Talk in Ireland on How “Biopsychosocial” Research on ME, Long Covid, and Related Illnesses Harms Patients
• Jan 3 – Some Things I’ve Read Recently–Long Covid and Fertility Issues, Psychotherapy Ethics, How to Fake Your Results

• Dec 23 – Cochrane Continues Telling ME/CFS Patients to Go F–k Themselves
• Dec 17 – Cochrane Tells ME/CFS Patients to Go F–k Themselves
• Dec 11 – Trail By Error: Agencies Respond to Coroner’s Report in Boothby O’Neill Inquest
• Dec 9 – Letter to BMJ Editor Seeking Correction in New Review of Interventions for Long Covid
• Dec 3 – Yet Again BMJ Recommends CBT and Exercise for Long Covid
• Nov 26 – Canadian Group Seeks Feedback on Recommendations for Exercise and CBT for Long Covid
• Nov 21 – Interview with Karen Hargrave, Co-Founder of #ThereForME
• Nov 20 – My Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction to Editorial on REGAIN Trial of Mental-and-Physical-Health Rehab for Long Covid
• Nov 19 – Professor Chris Ponting on “Replicated Blood-Based Biomarkers” for ME in Big Data Pre-Print Study
• Nov 18 – The BMJ Corrects REGAIN Study’s Expansive Claims; Results Only Applicable to Post-Hospitalized Long Covid Patients
• Nov 12 – My Tour of Ireland, Through Wind and Rain; Slides of My Talk
• Oct 25 – Guardian Columnist George Monbiot on the “Bizarre Cult” at the London-Based Science Media Centre
• Oct 24 – PACE Authors Respond to Monbiot Column with Tired Arguments
• Oct 22 – Professor Chris Ponting Discusses His Recent Article in The Conversation about the Plight of ME/CFS patients
• Oct 21 – Actress Jennie Jacques Interviews Guardian Columnist George Monbiot and Me about the CBT/GET Ideological Brigades, and More
• Oct 13 – Calls for Retraction of Absurd “Effort Preference” Claims from NIH Study
• Oct 8 – Extensive News Coverage of Exeter Coroner’s “Report to Prevent Future Deaths”
• Oct 7 – Coroner in Boothby O’Neill Inquest Issues Report to Prevent Future Deaths
• Sep 30 – Interview with Dr Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins about “Living with Orthostatic Intolerance”
• Sep 20 – Norwegian Tabloid Covers Stupid Gulf War Illness/PEM Study; My Letter to Journal Editor on Bogus Claims
• Sep 18 – UK Health Care Professionals Appeal to Health Secretary for Quick Action on Poor ME Care
• Sep 7 – Bogus Claims in Study of Exercise and PEM in Gulf War Illness
• Aug 29 – Little Sign of CBT/GET Ideologues in News Coverage of Inquest and BBC Breakfast Segment on ME and Long Covid
• Aug 20 – Post-Inquest Comments from Sarah Boothby, Maeve’s Mum
• Aug 14 – A Deeper Dive into the Inquest’s “Findings and Conclusions”
• Aug 11 – Valerie Eliot Smith on the Inquest Findings
• Aug 8 – Whitney Dafoe and Naomi Whittington Reflect on Severe ME and the Inquest into the Death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill
• Aug 6 – Sean O’Neill’s Inquest Statement
• Aug 5 – Sarah Boothby’s Statement to the Inquest
• Jul 31 – Dr Weir’s Letters on Treatment of Maeve Boothby O’Neill
• Jul 29 – Guardian Publishes Response to Boothby O’Neill Inquest from Ranking Member of the CBT/GET Ideological Brigades
• Jul 27 – Maeve Boothby O’Neill Inquest Highlights Major Systemic Failures at UK’s National Health Service and in Medical Education
• Jul 21 – “Effort Preference”? WTF?
• Jul 14 – More Debate About Treatment of Severe ME/CFS
• Jul 4 – New Paper Seeks to Reframe Poor Findings in CODES Trial of CBT for Non-Epileptic Seizures
• Jul 1 – Professor Edwards’ Take on Nutrition and Severe ME Cases
• Jun 28 – The Conversation Recycles Biopsychosocial Nonsense
• Jun 22 – Some Things I Read This Week–Scathing “Effort Preference” Analysis; Kids with Long Covid; National Academies’ Long Covid Definition
• Jun 21 – Athlete Oonagh Cousins on the Lightning Process
• Jun 13 – Betsy Ladyzhets on Problems with NIH’s RECOVER Initiative
• Jun 12 – Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s Methodologically and Ethically Challenged Pediatrician, Has Retired From Medicine
• May 26 – The Michael Sharpe Crowdfunding Effect
• May 24 – BBC Takes on Lightning Process and Highlights Perspectives of the So-Called “Anti-Recovery Activists”
• May 14 – Anil van der Zee’s New Video on Living with Severe ME
• May 10 – Time’s Health100 List Includes Leaders in Long Covid and ME/CFS
• May 9 – A Conversation with the Co-Founders of The Sick Times
• May 8 – Interview with Co-Organizator of Next Week’s Unite To Fight Long Covid Conference
• May 1 – Berkeley’s May Crowdfunding Campaign Begins…
• Apr 25 – Australian GP Group Recommends “Incremental Physical Activity” for “CFS/ME” Patients
• Apr 23 – Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Rebuke of the Biopsychosocial Brigades–Text Version
• Apr 18 – Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Critique of the “Biopsychosocial” Approach to ME/CFS and Long Covid
• Apr 14 – Senator Bernie Sanders’ $10 Billion Long Covid “Moonshot” Proposal
• Apr 14 – An Interview with the Authors of the European ME Alliance Survey of 11,000+ Patients
• Apr 12 – REGAIN Team Responds to Criticism with Unconvincing Defenses of Methodological Missteps
• Apr 10 – A New Study from Exeter on “Brain Training” for Treatment of Post-Covid Cognitive Problems
• Apr 9 – In England, Conflicts Between Families and Hospitals Threaten the Lives of Young Women with ME
• Apr 8 – Another Letter Seeking Correction of Bogus “Clinically Effective” Claims from REGAIN Trial
• Apr 7 – My Letter to Scientific Reports about New Study of Physical Activity and Long Covid
• Apr 4 – Yet Another Long Covid Study with Bogus Claims Published by a Prestige Journal
• Mar 28 – My Letter to Lead REGAIN Trial Investigator Seeking Correction of Bogus Claims of Clinical Effectiveness
• Mar 24 – We Asked BMJ to Correct a Paper; BMJ Requested a Rapid Response; We Have Declined
• Mar 18 – David Putrino on 1) Australian Call to Scrap the Term “Long Covid” and 2) New Pre-Print on Sex Differences in LC
• Mar 17 – Professor Chris Ponting on the NIH’s Findings and the Latest on the Genome-Wide Association Study Update
• Mar 14 – Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Calls Out the GET/CBT Charlatans and the Fraudulent PACE Trial
• Mar 10 – Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction in Study of Long Covid Physical-and-Mental Rehabilitation Program
• Mar 9 – Will MAGENTA’s Null Results Finally End Professor Crawley’s Long ‘Reign of Error’?
• Feb 27 – An Interview with Neuroscientist Michael VanElzakker about the Just-Published and Long-Awaited NIH Study
• Feb 20 – New Long Covid Exercise-and-Therapy Study Claims Success Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings
• Feb 15 – Sarah Boothby Discusses Second Pre-Inquest Hearing into Death of Daughter Maeve from ME Complications
• Feb 13 – Leading FND Site Confirms Criticisms on Prevalence Outlined in Our Letter to Neurology Journal
• Feb 11 – Unconvincing Response to Letter on FND Prevalence Inflation
• Feb 9 – Finally, Our Letter on Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Is Published
• Jan 30 – Yet Another Meta-Analysis Purporting to Prove that CBT Is Effective for “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”
• Jan 29 – Yet Another ME-Related Death
• Jan 27 – Debate Over Recent Citation of Arguably Fraudulent PACE Trial
• Jan 26 – Interview with Dr Rob Wüst about New Study of Muscle Abnormalities in Long Covid
• Jan 24 – Reporter Betsy Ladyzhets on Last Week’s US Senate Hearing
• Jan 12 – Obituary for Beth Mazur
• Jan 11 – Study Finds “Elevated Brain Injury Markers and Reduced Grey Matter Volume” a Year After Hospitalization for COVID-19
• Jan 9 – Dutch Study Links PEM in Long Covid to Biological Abnormalities
• Jan 4 – An Interview with Journalist Ed Yong
• Jan 4 – An Interview with Journalist Ed Yong
• Jan 2 – Update on NICE Response to “Anomalies” Paper; Higher ME/CFS Population Estimates in CDC Survey

• Dec 30 – Disastrous Results for Professor Crawley’s Pediatric Online CBT Trial
• Dec 24 – Julie Rehmeyer on the Heartbreaking Loss of Beth Mazur
• Dec 23 – Betsy Ladyzhets on New HHS Funding for Long Covid Clinics
• Dec 18 – #MEAction’s Jaime Seltzer on Recent NIH Gathering
• Dec 11 – Update on Our Letter Concerning the Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder
• Dec 5 – Dutch Survey Respondents Rate GET/CBT as “the Worst” Approach, Per New Report
• Nov 29 – NHS Lacks Policy on Severe ME, Per Testimony in Pre-Inquest Hearing on Death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill
• Nov 24 – Interview with Founders of The Sick Times, a New Online Publication
• Nov 20 – Column in Time Magazine Calls for Halt to Biomedical Long Covid Research
• Nov 16 – Cochrane Ends Silence on ME/CFS Exercise Review Developments
• Nov 11 – Yet More Stupidity from the Dutch CBT Fan Club
• Nov 6 – A Conversation with Lisa McCorkell of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative
• Nov 2 – Letter on Inflated FND Prevalence Rates Accepted for Publication
• Oct 28 – What’s Going On with Cochrane’s Exercise Review Mess?
• Oct 26 – A Crap Study on “Psychosomatic Therapy” for “Persistent Somatic Symptoms”
• Oct 19 – A Follow-Up on a Post About Whether Anxiety and Depression Perpetuate Functional Limb Weakness
• Oct 17 – Depression/Anxiety Not Linked to Negative Outcomes in Patients with Functional Limb Weakness, FND Experts Report
• Oct 17 – Depression/Anxiety Not Linked to Negative Outcomes in Patients with Functional Limb Weakness, FND Experts Report
• Oct 14 – Authors of Dutch Long Covid Paper Contradict Each Other
• Oct 9 – More of the Same Old Nonsense from the “Oslo Chronic Fatigue Consortium”
• Oct 5 – Norwegian Lightning Process Trial Ejects Questioning Participant
• Oct 1 – Celine Corsius–In Memorium
• Sep 29 – David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling
• Sep 22 – Media Notes–Hasan Presses Fauci on Long Covid; Rehmeyer on Psych Diagnoses; Washington Post Explores Backstory of Recent Study
• Sep 21 – An Interview with Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki
• Sep 19 – A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS
• Sep 17 – My Talk at Cambridge Last October on “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms’”
• Sep 12 – Interview with Journalist Betsy Ladyzhets about NIH’s Flawed $1.2 Billion RECOVER Program for Long Covid
• Sep 7 – Letter to Journal about Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence
• Sep 6 – Call for Retraction of Cochrane Review from Science For ME; Overview of Viral Persistence in Long Covid; Senators United on Long Covid
• Sep 4 – Just the Latest Gibberish from Professor Chalder
• Aug 31 – Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME’s First Results
• Aug 24 – DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic’s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH’s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts
• Aug 14 – Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS
• Aug 8 – More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue
• Aug 3 – That Whine De Coeur about NICE’s Rejection of GET/CBT Regimen, and ME Action UK’s Disappearing Rebuttal
• Jul 20 – Psych Medicine’s Rejects Request for Correction of Prevalence Rates Cited in FND Paper–Updated
• Jul 11 – Dutch Team Offers “Dog-Ate-My-Data” Excuses for Not Reporting Null Objective Findings
• Jul 9 – Update on Efforts to Correct False Statements about FND Prevalence
• Jul 5 – My Twitter Thread about Slate’s Piece on Long Covid and Mental Illness
• Jul 3 – A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Inflated FND Rate Claims
• Jun 30 – A Letter Requesting Corrections of Inflated Prevalence Rates in Nine More FND Papers
• Jun 27 – Families with Long Covid Kids Fight Against Social Services
• Jun 24 – FND Experts Agree To Correct Inflated Prevalence Claim
• Jun 16 – Action For ME Report on NICE Guidelines; Brian Hughes on Myths About the Guidelines; Michael Sharpe’s San Francisco Speech
• Jun 8 – Claim that CBT Is Safe Is “Misleading,” Says Dutch Ad Group
• Jun 8 – Author Michael Alenyikov on ME and the Writing Life
• Jun 5 – A Letter Regarding Inflated Prevalence Rates for Functional Neurological Disorder
• May 31 – Dr Binita Kane on Kids with Long Covid
• May 27 – Psychologist Brian Hughes Discusses His New Book, “A Conceptual History of Psychology”
• May 25 – Dutch CBT Study for Long Covid Proves that Unblinded Studies with Subjective Outcomes Generate Positive Reports
• May 22 – Questions About the Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder and the Research on Hoover’s Sign for Functional Leg Weakness
• May 12 – A Day in the Life of Anil van der Zee
• May 4 – Mt Sinai’s David Putrino on Long Covid and Functional Neurological Disorder
• May 1 – “Long Haul” Author Ryan Prior on Why Long Covid Is a “Political” Term and Related Stuff
• Apr 26 – Dutch Agency Awards Big Biomedical ME/CFS Grant to Judith Rosmalen, Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine
• Apr 24 – Dutch Agency to Announce ME/CFS Research Awards After Committee Resignation of Key Patient Advocate
• Apr 20 – Some Recent Long Covid Articles from STAT/MuckRock, The Atlantic, and Nieman Reports
• Apr 17 – Professors Crawley, Chalder & Colleagues Investigate Pediatric Long Covid in Yet Another Study with a Stupid Acronym
• Apr 14 – Why Did the NIH List an Award for Research on Cancer-Related Fatigue in Its List of Spending on ME/CFS?
• Apr 12 – Further Thoughts on that JAMA Network Open Article and Estimates of Long Covid Prevalence
• Apr 7 – What is Recovery Norway’s Role in the JAMA Network Open Study of Long Covid in Young People?
• Apr 3 – New JAMA Article Seeks to Revive the Zombie Case Definition for CFS from 1994
• Apr 2 – Why Are Exercise Studies for Long Covid Still Failing to Address PEM Adequately?
• Mar 24 – An Update on the Missing Ethics Corrections in Multiple Esther Crawley Papers
• Mar 21 – What the Hell is Going on with Cochrane’s Long-Delayed Re-Review of “Exercise Therapies”?
• Mar 12 – GET/CBT Ideologues Revive 1991 Oxford Criteria as Core Definition for Long Covid Research
• Mar 8 – An Interview with Meghan O’Rourke, Author of The Invisible Kingdom (Reprise)
• Feb 28 – After Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s Death, More Concerns About Severe ME Patients at NHS Hospitals
• Feb 23 – An Upcoming “Biopsychosocial” Long Covid Conference in Finland
• Feb 18 – Correctives from Putrino & Iwasaki (and Others) to the Long-Covid-Is-Psychosomatic Claims
• Feb 10 – Once More Regarding Inflated FND Rates–and a Reprise of a Letter to a Yale Neurologist
• Feb 2 – A Response to Call for “A New Paradigm” for Long Covid in Lancet Respiratory Medicine
• Feb 1 – My Article About the Life–and Preventable Death–of Maeve Boothby O’Neill
• Jan 23 – Double Talk on Mind-Body “Dualism” in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research?
• Jan 13 – After Last Year’s Tub Talk, Here’s an Interview–Clothed–for #MEAction’s Podcast
• Jan 9 – Why is the Department of Veterans Affairs Using a 1988 Definition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

• Dec 29 – Usual Suspects Say NICE Made Eight Errors; Nonsense, Says Committee Member Adam Lowe
• Dec 21 – Can Functional Neurological Disorder Be an Indication of Prion Disease?
• Dec 20 – A Stupid Study of Exercise for Long Covid Patients With Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation
• Dec 13 – Is the Long Covid Phenomenon an Expression of “Psychosocial Distress”?
• Dec 7 – Top Lightning Process Proponent Privately Lobbied for Approval of Norway’s LP Study
• Dec 5 – Recent Articles in The Guardian, CNBC and Popular Science
• Nov 21 – The Long COVID Survival Guide and the Role of Patients in Research
• Nov 12 – More on that New York Magazine Piece Pushing Psychogenic View of ME/CFS and Long Covid
• Nov 11 – Recent News Articles Highlight Post-Exertional Malaise
• Nov 1 – Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views
• Oct 29 – The 7th Anniversary of My Expose About the Fraudulent–i.e. Misleading, Deceptive–PACE Trial
• Oct 28 – German Draft Report on ME/CFS Raises Alarms for Promoting CBT and GET
• Oct 27 – My Most Recent Letter to the HRA Related to Ethical Lapses at the University of Bristol
• Oct 25 – So the Dog Ate Professor Crawley’s Corrections AND Her Correspondence As Well
• Oct 24 – New Study Promotes “Bespoke” Hospital Rehab Program for Kids with ME/CFS
• Oct 15 – Did the Dog Eat Professor Crawley’s Seven Missing Corrections?
• Oct 11 – Cindy Bateman and OMF Seek to Boost Medical Education About ME/CFS and Related Illnesses
• Oct 6 – Update on Professor Crawley’s Uncorrected Ethics Statements
• Oct 4 – Mt Sinai’s David Putrino on Long Covid, Post-Exertional Malaise, and Lazy Doctors–Text Version!
• Oct 4 – Berkeley’s October Crowdfunding Campaign
• Oct 3 – What I’ve Read Recently–Yong, Jason, Prior & Lowenstein, & Eliot Smith
• Sep 30 – Research From GET/CBT Ideological Brigades Shows No Improvements in Work Status
• Sep 24 – Brain Publishes Letter About Flawed Study from NYU on ‘Psychogenic POTS’
• Sep 16 – Psychological Medicine Rejects Letter About Chalder’s Bogus Review of CBT/GET Studies
• Sep 13 – Journalist Ryan Prior Discusses His Upcoming Book on Long Covid, The Long Haul
• Sep 12 – My Exchange of Letters With Bristol About Professor Crawley’s Uncorrected Ethics Statements
• Sep 9 – My Letter to Psych Medicine About Professor Chalder’s Flawed Systematic Review
• Sep 6 – Another CBT/GET Marketing Document Masquerading as Research from Professor Chalder
• Sep 2 – A Few Things of Interest I Read This Week
• Aug 30 – My Letter to Bristol and the Health Research Authority About Uncorrected Crawley Papers
• Aug 29 – Professor Crawley Was Asked to Correct Ethics Statements in 11 Papers; 7 Are Still Uncorrected
• Aug 23 – Ryan Prior on Biden’s Plans; Physician with Long Covid; Writers Discuss ME’s Impact
• Aug 22 – Todd Davenport on Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation in Long Covid and ME/CFS
• Aug 22 – In a Tub Talk, Therapist Damon Jacobs and I Discuss ME/CFS, Long Covid & AIDS Activism
• Aug 22 – Todd Davenport on Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation in Long Covid and ME/CFS
• Aug 17 – A Letter to Journal Brain About Paper Claiming POTS Is a “Functional Psychogenic Disorder”
• Aug 8 – King’s College London Still Promoting Discredited CBT/GET/Deconditioning Paradigm (Update)
• Aug 3 – Is POTS a “Functional Psychogenic Disorder”? Yes, According to NYU Research Team
• Aug 2 – A Few Things I’ve Read (or Heard) Lately About ME/CFS and Long Covid
• Jul 26 – Professor Chalder Reports CBT Does Not Work for Post-Stroke Fatigue, Calls for More Research
• Jul 25 – A Conversation with Patient Advocate Adam “Beyonce Holes” Lowe
• Jul 20 – Mom Speaks Out About NHS “Abuse” of Daughter; Norway Approves Lightning Process Study
• Jul 13 – My Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open About Missing Peer Reviews for Crawley Paper
• Jul 12 – If Professor Crawley’s ACT Study Was Peer Reviewed, Where Are the Peer Reviews?
• Jul 11 – Professor Crawley Promotes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for CBT Failures
• Jul 7 – A Letter About the Inflated Prevalence Rate of Functional Neurological Disorder
• Jul 3 – Sometimes Good Things Happen Quickly, Even When It Involves the UK National Health Service
• Jun 22 – An FND Patient’s View–and More on Those Inflated Prevalence Rates
• Jun 16 – Does Functional Neurology Disorder Account for a Third of Outpatient Neurology Consults?
• Jun 6 – A Reprise of an Earlier Blog Post About Godwin’s Law on Nazi Analogies and Simon Wessely
• Jun 3 – Science Media Centre Chief Fiona Fox Compares ME/CFS Patient Advocates to Nazis
• May 31 – Deja Vu All Over Again with Proposed Lightning Process Study in Norway
• May 26 – An Innumerate Response from Chalder to Hughes-Tuller Comments on Bogus Data Analysis
• May 23 – Speaker at CDC Event Promotes CBT and “Very Gradual” GET
• May 12 – An Interview With Mt Sinai’s David Putrino About Long Covid, ME/CFS, and Related Issues
• Apr 23 – Now a Scottish Long Covid Study Fails to Mention the Risk of Post-Exertional Malaise
• Apr 20 – Two Reports on the Financial Burden of Long Covid and Its Impact on ME/CFS Prevalence
• Apr 18 – An Interview with Meghan O’Rourke, Author of “The Invisible Kingdom”
• Apr 14 – The UK Health Research Authority’s Missteps on PACE and the Declaration of Helsinki
• Apr 11 – PACE Team Stages a Comeback Tour
• Apr 8 – More on the REGAIN Trial for Long Covid Patients
• Mar 30 – Can Someone Please Slap a Warning Label on this Exercise-and-Rehab Long Covid Study?
• Mar 5 – British GP Journal Retracts “Opinion” About Lightning Process Written By LP Practitioner
• Feb 27 – The Usual Suspects Promote a Psychosocial “Research Agenda” for Long Covid
• Feb 18 – My Letter Responding to Norway Health Leader’s Efforts to Denigrate My “Activist” Work
• Feb 14 – The Lancet Publishes Whine de Coeur from Impassioned GET/CBT Defenders
• Feb 10 – My Exchange of Letters on Amygdala Retraining; That Undead Lightning Process Study
• Feb 4 – More on the Dutch CBT Long Covid Trial; Finnish Study of “Amygdala Retraining” Program
• Jan 28 – CBT for CFS Should Target “Problematic Worry,” Says New Study from Professor Chalder
• Jan 25 – Does “Long Covid” Need Rebranding As “Ongoing Covid-19 Recovery”?
• Jan 22 – Q-and-A with Natalie Boulton, Director of “Dialogues for a Neglected Illness”
• Jan 14 – French Dogs on the Trail; Impact of Long Covid on the US Job Market
• Jan 7 – Dutch CBT Trial Targets “Dysfunctional Beliefs About Fatigue” in Long Covid Patients
• Jan 4 – Awaiting Response on Chalder Paper; Australian GPs Still Promoting GET and Citing PACE

• Dec 22 – An Exchange of Letters Concerning Professor Chalder’s Latest Disaster of a Paper
• Dec 19 – Mayo Clinic Treatment Plan Cites “Deconditioning,” “Perfectionism,” and CBT
• Dec 16 – A Letter to Occupational Medicine From Brian Hughes & Me About Prof Chalder’s Latest Disaster
• Dec 11 – More on that Disastrous Employment Paper from Professor Chalder and Colleagues
• Dec 7 – Professor Chalder Messes Up Again in New Paper on CFS and Employment Outcomes
• Dec 3 – Lightning Process Star Complains About NICE; Struthers Nudges Cochrane to Keep Up
• Nov 27 – An Interview with Adam Lowe, a Member of the NICE Guideline Committee for ME/CFS
• Nov 20 – New Paper From PACE Authors Repeats Bogus Arguments and Defenses
• Nov 16 – Some National Health Service Branches Fail to Respond to New NICE Guidelines for ME/CFS
• Nov 15 – Is Something Shifting at the Science Media Centre?
• Nov 10 – Authors Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt and Nasim Marie Jafry Discuss Their Novels
• Nov 5 – King’s College London Is Still Hyping “Bespoke” CBT for CFS as “Recommended” in UK
• Oct 31 – Losers in NICE Guideline Fight Remain Defiant Despite Public Repudiation of Their Claims
• Oct 29 – NICE Liberates New ME/CFS Guideline After Two-Month Hijacking Nightmare
• Oct 23 – PACE Authors Now Blame “Misunderstandings” for GET/CBT Criticisms
• Oct 20 – NICE Announces Upcoming Release of ME/CFS Guideline After Prolonged Hostage Drama
• Oct 18 – Advocates Issue Hopeful Comments After NICE Pow-Wow on ME/CFS Guideline
• Oct 14 – North Bristol NHS Trust’s Biased Survey of Patients Attending “CFS/ME Specialist Services”
• Oct 8 – Professor Lubet’s Take on The New Yorker’s Long Covid Article
• Oct 7 – UC Berkeley’s October Crowdfunding Campaign
• Oct 3 – BBC’s Problematic Coverage of New Long COVID Study
• Sep 24 – Good Long Covid Coverage from Atlantic; Skeptical Coverage from New Yorker and Others
• Sep 20 – Advocates Propose Fixes to Dysfunctional US Coding System for ME, CFS and ME/CFS
• Sep 15 – An Updated Letter to the NICE Chief Executive About the Unpublished ME/CFS Guideline
• Sep 14 – More Science-as-Promotion from the GET Campaigners
• Sep 7 – Jennie Spotila’s Annual Fact-Check of NIH Spending on ME/CFS Research
• Sep 1 – While NICE Waffles, US Specialists Publish New Clinical Guidelines for ME/CFS
• Sep 1 – A Letter Urging NICE to Publish ME/CFS Guideline Without Delay
• Aug 19 – NICE Squares Off Against Royal College Bullies Over New ME/CFS Guidelines
• Aug 10 – The Times Fact-Checks BMJ on NICE Committee; My Letter to BMJ’s Fiona Godlee
• Aug 7 – Three CBT/GET Proponents Quit NICE ME/CFS Guidance Panel as Publication Date Nears
• Jul 30 – Neurology Journal Fixes False Claim in MUS Paper–But Fails to Publish a Correction Notice (Ironically, I Have Added a Correction to the Post!)
• Jul 24 – Tack and I Write to Psych Medicine; Struthers Writes to Medical Research Council
• Jul 21 – CBT Model of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Explained; CBT Trial for Q-Fever Fatigue
• Jul 20 – Medical Societies and new Komaroff-Lipkin Paper Highlight Long COVID and ME/CFS Links
• Jul 13 – Some Lightning Process Updates
• Jul 6 – Professor Steven Lubet on Misogyny, Homophobia and Long COVID Denialism
• Jul 5 – Professor White & Colleagues “Regret” Ignoring Null Results in GETSET Trial Follow-Up
• Jul 3 – Quartet of Trials Reveals Limitations of CBT for “Medically Unexplained Symptoms”
• Jun 30 – Journal Corrects “Highlights” of GETSET Paper; A Letter about Prof White’s GET Safety Paper
• Jun 25 – Lowenstein’s Guardian Opinion; Eliot Smith’s Post-NICE View; Tack’s Take on Blinding Study
• Jun 24 – Did the IBS Trial Really Show that Web-Based CBT Offered Significant Clinical Effectiveness?
• Jun 19 – Null Outcomes Presented as Success in Yet Another CBT Trial from Prof Trudie Chalder
• Jun 15 – #MEAction’s Chronic Illness Survey; Patients’ Research Informs CDC’s Long-COVID Advice
• Jun 10 – More Disinformation from Professor White in Journal of Psychosomatic Research
• Jun 7 – Norway Rejects New Clinical Trial of Woo-Woo Lightning Process
• May 15 – Journal Editorial Calls for Caution in Exercise-Based Rehab Programs for Long COVID
• May 11 – More Letters about Professor Anthony David’s Mis-Citations of Key Study on Costs of MUS
• May 6 – My Letters to Psychosomatics Journal About Prof White’s Misleading GETSET Paper
• May 1 – In Guardian Column, Professor Pariante Parrots Standard Biopsychosocial Nonsense
• Apr 26 – Professor David’s Third Mis-Citation of Seminal Study of “Medically Unexplained Symptoms”
• Apr 23 – Trial By Errors: Why Have Experts in MUS Spent Ten Years Mis-Citing a Study about Costs to the NHS?
• Apr 21 – More on the Lightning Process and the Science Media Centre’s Collusion With UK Journalists
• Apr 20 – Do the “Vast Majority” of Lightning Process Participants Achieve “Lasting Change”?
• Apr 18 – Northwestern Law Professor Steven Lubet Corresponds with McMaster U. About That WSJ Op-Ed
• Apr 18 – Letter to Lancet Editor Demanding Independent Investigation of PACE (Reprise from 2018)
• Apr 17 – My Letter to Professor Anthony David Asks Why MUS Experts Keep Misquoting a Major Study
• Apr 17 – PACE Team’s Work for Insurance Companies Is “Not Related” to PACE. Really? (Reprise)
• Apr 15 – The World According to Sharpe
• Apr 14 – Jennie Spotila Tracks Down–and Busts–an Old Tale About “Death Threats” from Patients
• Apr 13 – A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Error in MUS Paper from Sir Simon and Colleagues
• Apr 10 – Journal of Health Psychology Publishes Hughes-Tuller Critique of Wessely-Chalder CBT Claims
• Apr 7 – Prof Sharpe Fact-Checks Comment on Blog About How George Monbiot Is Causing Long COVID
• Apr 6 – Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Is Causing Long COVID, Says Professor Michael Sharpe
• Apr 6 – Northwestern Law Professor Steve Lubet’s View of that Wall Street Journal Editorial
• Apr 6 – GETSET Study Reports Null Results for Self-Help Graded Exercise–but Declares Success Anyway
• Apr 4 – Long COVID, the Long COVID Alliance, and ME International
• Apr 1 – More on that WSJ Opinion Piece; and Q-and-A with Author of this Week’s WSJ Rebuttal
• Mar 25 – Clueless Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Endorses PACE as the “Prevailing View” Among Docs
• Mar 20 – Another Excellent Read on Long Covid, ME/CFS and Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• Mar 17 – Biopsychosocial Brigades Seek Traction with Long Covid
• Mar 7 – Psychosomatics Journal Linked to PACE Authors Highlights Bias from Subjective Outcome
• Mar 3 – A Q-and-A with Tracie White, author of The Puzzle Solver
• Feb 24 – National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins on Plans for Long COVID Research
• Feb 18 – Happy Tenth Anniversary, PACE Trial!
• Feb 15 – Hughes-Tuller Comment on Wessely-Chalder CBT Study Rejected by Journal, Posted Here
• Feb 8 – New Biopsychosocial Paper on Long-Covid and Somatic Symptom Disorder
• Feb 3 – An Excerpt from Jamison Hill’s Memoir
• Jan 28 – Professor Paul Garner’s BMJ Blog Post on His Powerful Cognitions
• Jan 27 – Professor Lubet’s Inquiry to Medical Center Holding ME/CFS Patient
• Jan 26 – My Exchange with Minnesota Medical Center Holding ME/CFS Patient
• Jan 24 – Game-Changing Articles in The Guardian and The New York Times
• Jan 15 – New Study Reports First-Hand Accounts of 1955 Hospital Outbreak
• Jan 13 – Tack’s Take on 2020 Studies; Professor Edwards’ Statement to NICE

• Dec 30 – Psych Issues Do Not Predict ME/CFS, New Chicago Study Shows
• Dec 30 – Swedish ME Patient Fears Forced Psychiatric Treatment
• Dec 21 – A Letter to BMJ From Prof Hughes, Prof Racaniello and Me
• Dec 21 – BMJ Pushes Back Against New NICE Draft
• Dec 15 – Professors Chalder and Crawley Join Forces to Push CBT for Kids
• Dec 10 – Letter to Author of Removed GET/CBT Training Program for GPs
• Dec 10 – GP Group Removes Online GET/CBT Medical Training Program
• Dec 9 – My Zoom-Talk on the NICE Draft for Sheffield ME Group
• Dec 6 – FDA Approves Web-CBT for IBS; GET/CBT as Tomorrow’s “Rubbish”
• Dec 1 – Thoughts on The Observer, The Guardian, and Paradigm Shift
• Nov 29 – The Observer Slips Up; ME Association Responds
• Nov 25 – My Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open about the CBT-Music Therapy Study
• Nov 23 – Update on BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy Study (h/t Steinkopf and Tack)
• Nov 20 – The Science Media Centre and UK’s Coverage of New NICE Draft
• Nov 14 – Jennie Spotila’s Annual Review of NIH Funding
• Nov 9 – NICE Draft Rejects GET, Lightning Process, and CBT-As-Cure
• Nov 9 – With Trump Out, Can GET/CBT Be Next?
• Nov 7 – My Predictions for NICE ME/CFS Guidance, Reprise
• Nov 2 – No Links Between “Parental Separation” and Kids’ ME Severity
• Oct 27 – BMJ Retracts Music Therapy-CBT Study, But…
• Oct 26 – The British Association for CFS/ME Switches Gears
• Oct 25 – NICE’s Upcoming Draft Guidance on ME/CFS
• Oct 21 – Professor Chew-Graham’s Apparent Shift in Position on GET/CBT
• Oct 20 – Some Thoughts on Long-Covid, ME/CFS and MUS
• Oct 14 – Professor Chalder’s PRINCE Has Arrived
• Oct 14 – How Professor Lubet’s Nightmare Began…
• Oct 7 – NICE Draft Guidance on ME/CFS Coming Next Month
• Oct 4 – More on the Royal Society of Medicine Webinar
• Oct 1 – That Royal Society of Medicine Webinar on Long-Covid
• Sep 28 – The CDC’s Stakeholder Meeting
• Sep 20 – More CBT Research from Sir Simon and Professor Chalder, Part 2
• Sep 16 – A Short Talk for UK Docs and Researchers
• Sep 15 – UK Docs Speak Up on Long-Covid; Mayo Shifts Gears (a Little)
• Sep 10 – Some Stuff about Long-Covid, BMJ and ME
• Sep 2 – What Is the Dynamic Neural Retraining System?
• Aug 27 – The Lightning Process Strikes Again
• Aug 18 – FITNET-NHS Falls Short in Recruitment Drive
• Aug 12 – More CBT Research from Sir Simon and Professor Chalder
• Aug 10 – Recent Posts on Dutch Stuff from Simon McGrath and Lou Corsius
• Aug 7 – And Now–No Surprise–CBT for Post-Covid Fatigue
• Aug 5 – From UK’s National Health Service, “Your COVID Recovery”
• Aug 3 – Some Stuff to Read and Watch From Rivka, Natalie & Anil
• Jul 28 – Disinformation About Treatments for Post-Covid Syndrome
• Jul 25 – Columbia Experts Urge BMJ to Retract Problem-Plagued Study
• Jul 21 – Another Letter About BMJ’s Music Therapy Study
• Jul 20 – No Evidence for CBT and Other “Conversion Disorder” Therapies
• Jul 15 – NICE on Exercise and Post-Covid Syndrome
• Jul 8 – Excellent News Coverage of UK Genetics Study in The Times
• Jul 3 – Nudge for BMJ About Music Therapy; Letter to “Health Anxiety” Expert
• Jul 1 – Now There’s CBT for ‘Health Anxiety’ in CFS
• Jun 30 – A Few Interesting Studies
• Jun 27 – My Letter to Author of CODES Commentary
• Jun 26 – CODES Trial Commentary Promotes ‘Eminence-Based Medicine’
• Jun 24 – UK Funds Genetics Project; My Letter to CODES Investigators
• Jun 23 – More Questions About CODES Trial of CBT for Seizures
• Jun 18 – BMJ Responds to Appeals About Norway’s CBT-Music Therapy Study
• Jun 16 – Trio of Trials Shows Limits of CBT for Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• Jun 15 – A Letter to KCL, Another Letter to BMJ
• Jun 11 – A King’s College London Press Release Hides the Bad News
• Jun 8 – Coupla More Posts Worth Reading
• Jun 3 – A Response from Dagbladet
• Jun 2 – A Couple of Blog Posts Worth Reading
• May 31 – Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open About that CBT-Music Therapy Study
• May 30 – Two Letters to Dagbladet About Its ME Coverage
• May 28 – Tack’s Take on BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy “Feasibility Study”
• May 28 – My Letter to Peer Reviewer of BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy Paper
• May 22 – My Letter to Senior Author of Norway’s CBT-Music Therapy Study
• May 20 – Norway’s Double Whammy of Fuzzy Science
• May 18 – More Strangeness with that Norwegian CBT/Music Therapy Study
• May 15 – More on that Norwegian CBT/Music Therapy Study
• May 12 – Today is May 12th and Everyone’s Missing
• May 8 – Valerie Eliot Smith on COVID-19, ME and Legal Repercussions
• May 6 – Merck Manual Still Disseminates GET/CBT Advice
• May 5 – My Letter to IBS Study’s Corresponding Author
• May 2 – Norway’s Proposed Lightning Process Trial
• May 2 – Oxford Health’s Response to My Freedom of Information Request
• Apr 30 – A Letter to Mahana’s NHS-Linked Business Adviser
• Apr 28 – Another Nudge to Mahana’s Gasteroenterology Advisers
• Apr 24 – More on the Mahana Mess…
• Apr 20 – My Follow-Up Freedom-of-Information Request to Oxford Health
• Apr 20 – Oxford Health Blinks, Removes Pamphlet on Post-COVID Illness
• Apr 18 – My FOI Letter about Oxford’s Post-COVID-19 Fatigue Pamphlet
• Apr 18 – A Follow-Up to the Follow-Up Letter to Mahana
• Apr 16 – Oxford-NHS Recommends GET/CBT for Post-COVID “CFS” Patients
• Apr 15 – Revisiting Mahana and Irritable Bowel Syndrome…
• Apr 12 – Berkeley Crowdfunding Month, Coronavirus Edition
• Apr 9 – My Visits with Alem Matthees (Reprise)
• Apr 8 – A Post About Lupus and MUS, Not COVID
• Apr 7 – A Non-COVID Post about KCL’s Rejection of My FOI Request
• Apr 3 – Thoughts on Self-Isolation from Anil van der Zee
• Mar 26 – Some Coronavirus Advice from ME Association’s Dr Charles Shepherd
• Mar 18 – What Now?
• Mar 16 – My Virtual Appearance in Sheffield
• Mar 2 – New Biopsychosocial Study of Fatigue in HIV Patients
• Feb 25 – Simon McGrath on Leonard Jason’s Study of US Pediatric Prevalence
• Feb 24 – Another Letter About Mahana; BerkeleyWellness on IBS Study
• Feb 19 – An Australian Radio Interview with Melbourne’s Dr Mark Guthridge
• Feb 17 – My Follow-up Letter to Mahana Therapeutics’ CEO
• Feb 11 – My Letter to Mahana’s CEO and Co-Founder
• Feb 11 – My Letter to Two More Mahana GI Advisors
• Feb 10 – My Follow-Up Letter to Professor Rona Moss-Morris
• Feb 5 – My Letter to One of Mahana’s Gastroenterology Advisors
• Feb 2 – My Letter to Professor Moss-Morris
• Jan 28 – More on the Mahana Therapeutics Deal
• Jan 27 – My FOI Request to King’s College London; My Letter to Mahana Therapeutics
• Jan 27 – A Commercial Deal for King’s College London’s IBS-CBT Digital Program
• Jan 24 – CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Jan 22 – My Talk Last October in Oxford (Video)
• Jan 15 – CBT Provides No Benefits to Advanced Cancer Patients, Study Finds
• Jan 13 – The UK’s Proposed Genetics Study
• Jan 12 – The 2018 PACE Reanalysis and the SMC’s Expert Appraisals
• Jan 8 – NIH Funding “Needs Life Support,” Says Jennie Spotila
• Jan 8 – The Danish ME Association’s Open Letter
• Jan 7 – Some More Thoughts on Functional Neurological Disorder

• Dec 30 – My 2011 Exchange with White et al about Case Definition
• Dec 30 – Shaky Evidence for Signs of Functional Neurological Disorders
• Dec 24 – PEM Is Bad and So Is Fukuda, New Study Finds
• Dec 16 – My STAT Opinion Piece on BMJ and Dr Godlee
• Dec 16 – Simon McGrath on Ron Davis on “something in the blood”
• Dec 10 – Mayo Clinic’s Crappy Website
• Dec 6 – Fiona Godlee Doubles Down on Lightning Process Study
• Dec 2 – More Calls to Godlee for LP Study Retraction
• Dec 2 – Professor Jonathan Edwards’ View of ME
• Nov 22 – Open Letter to Dr Godlee about BMJ’s Ethically Bankrupt Actions (2)
• Nov 15 – A Follow-Up Letter to Bristol
• Nov 13 – My Talk in Newry, Northern Ireland
• Nov 2 – The HRA’s Letter to Berkeley’s Chancellor
• Oct 30 – How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review (Reprise)
• Oct 29 – “Bristol, It Is Time to Withdraw Your Complaints to Berkeley”
• Oct 28 – The HRA’s Letter about the Investigation of Bristol Research
• Oct 21 – Bristol’s Report Due Soon; My Oxford Talk
• Oct 9 – More on the Revised Cochrane Exercise Review
• Oct 2 – Where Is Bristol’s Review of Professor Crawley’s Ethics Missteps?
• Sep 24 – What’s Up With Cochrane’s Exercise Review?
• Sep 18 – My Letter to BMJ Open about False MUS Claim
• Sep 16 – My Letter to Professor Chalder about the PRINCE Trial
• Sep 15 – Another Batch of Letters To Dr Godlee on BMJ’s LP Study Mess
• Sep 11 – Experts Send More Tough Letters to Dr Godlee
• Sep 8 – More Experts Urge Godlee to Retract Lightning Process Study
• Sep 4 – More on Cochrane’s New Risk of Bias Tool
• Sep 3 – Calls for Retraction of the LP Study
• Aug 31 – Lead Author of Cochrane’s New Bias Guideline is LP Study Co-Author
• Aug 27 – An Open Letter to Dr Godlee about BMJ’s Ethically Bankrupt Actions
• Aug 21 – Joan McParland’s Lightning Process Experience
• Aug 19 – My Interview with Melbourne’s Dr Don Lewis
• Aug 13 – An Ill-Informed Article in The Guardian
• Jul 29 – More GET Drivel from Australia
• Jul 15 – NHS ME/CFS Clinics Lax on Treatment Harms, Study Finds
• Jul 15 – Our Exchange with BMJ Journal about “Correction” of LP Study
• Jul 10 – Mary Dimmock on CDC’s New Evidence Review
• Jul 8 – Some Thoughts on MUS and Bermingham; My Letter to Professor Payne
• Jul 1 – My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham about the Cost of MUS
• Jul 1 – FOI Response from Bristol about LP Study; Correction in BJGP about MUS
• Jun 26 – An Update about the Pediatric MUS Systematic Review
• Jun 24 – Another Review Mentions LP Study and Prompts More Letters
• Jun 19 – Jennie Spotila’s Latest NIH Funding Fact-Check
• Jun 12 – A Letter to Bristol about my Recent FOI Request; Update Added
• Jun 11 – BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls
• Jun 9 – Hey BJGP, Where’s That Correction about the Cost of MUS?
• Jun 5 – A Second Letter to LP Study’s Senior Author
• Jun 5 – My Follow-Up Follow-Up with Dr Segal about LP Study Citation
• Jun 3 – Re-Visiting My Questions for the Science Media Centre about Bristol’s LP Study
• Jun 3 – Time to Retract the LP Study; Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
• Jun 2 – A Freedom of Information Request to Bristol About LP Study
• Jun 2 – Professor Edwards’ Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee About the LP Study
• May 29 – British Journal of General Practice Agrees to Correction about MUS
• May 22 – My Latest Letter on The Lightning Process Study; and an Update
• May 20 – The Lightning Process Is “Effective”? Really?
• May 19 – My Follow-Up Letter to the British Journal of General Practice
• May 15 – A Plea to Fiona Godlee on a Familiar Topic
• May 14 – A Crowdfunding Wrap-Up
• May 13 – My Most Recent Exchange with Bristol
• May 7 – My Exchange with the British Journal of General Practice
• May 5 – My Letter about MUS to the British Journal of General Practice
• Apr 30 – My Follow-Up Letter to Reuters
• Apr 29 – My Latest Letter to Bristol’s Legal Department
• Apr 23 – Jennie Spotila on Collins’ NIH Talk
• Apr 22 – Crowdfunding Week 3 Matching Grant
• Apr 21 – Revisiting the Reuters Story
• Apr 18 – A Reuters Update
• Apr 15 – Crowdfunding, Week 2; and more Sharpe and Chalder
• Apr 9 – My Latest Letter to Bristol
• Apr 8 – Crowdfunding, Week 1
• Apr 2 – This Year’s US Clinician Summit
• Apr 1 – My Berkeley Crowdfunding Appeal
• Apr 1 – April is Berkeley Crowdfunding Month!
• Mar 31 – A Bit More on Kaiser Permanente
• Mar 25 – The CDC’s Pathetic Response to Reuters
• Mar 18 – My Letter to Kate Kelland
• Mar 17 – My Letter to Professor Hotopf About Bristol’s School Absence Study
• Mar 12 – Cochrane’s Report on Courtney’s Complaint
• Mar 11 – Kaiser Permanente Changes Course
• Mar 6 – Stupid Studies
• Mar 3 – Who Has the School Study Documents?
• Feb 25 – The Cost of MUS
• Feb 20 – Cochrane Update, and Caroline Struthers’ Latest Letter
• Feb 18 – Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes
• Feb 17 – Professor Sharpe’s Retraction Requests
• Feb 13 – Spotila’s Take on NIH Grant Reviewers
• Feb 13 – Re-visiting My Questions for PACE Professors
• Feb 11 – BMJ Amends Last Week’s PACE Article
• Feb 6 – HRA Report Does Not Vindicate PACE
• Feb 5 – And Another Prebuttal…
• Feb 3 – A Recap of the School Absence Study
• Feb 1 – A Bit More About Bristol’s Investigation
• Jan 31 – The Reporter’s Questions for Professor Racaniello
• Jan 31 – Some Thoughts About an Upcoming Article
• Jan 31 – Bristol Investigating Crawley Papers
• Jan 28 – My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham About METRIC
• Jan 28 – Steve Brine’s Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME
• Jan 23 – Action For ME’s Employment Advice
• Jan 22 – S4ME Summary for Week of January 14th
• Jan 22 – My Six-Month Review
• Jan 21 – Carol Monaghan Scores Another Parliamentary Debate
• Jan 7 – More Thoughts on the Interferon Study
• Jan 6 – My Letter to LP Study’s Senior Author

• Dec 31 – My Norwegian Interview
• Dec 26 – “Talk is Cheap,” Patients Tell NIH
• Dec 24 – Australian Draft Report Seeks Comments
• Dec 19 – The New Interferon “CFS” Study
• Dec 12 – The View From Norway
• Dec 10 – And Cochrane Makes Another Move…
• Dec 4 – How BMJ Enabled Bristol’s Ethics Exemptions
• Dec 3 – Some Good News on Cochrane
• Nov 19 – Some Thoughts About NICE
• Nov 14 – Video of October Newry Talk, with Brian Hughes
• Nov 12 – How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review
• Nov 8 – An Australian Exchange with Professor Sharpe
• Nov 7 – Yet Another Letter About the Lightning Process Study
• Oct 28 – Three Years On…
• Oct 24 – Where’s My Apology, BMJ Open?
• Oct 23 – A Statement in Support of Cochrane
• Oct 19 – My letter to organizer of 4th Columbia Psychosomatics Conference
• Oct 19 – A Reminder about Saturday’s Columbia Protest
• Oct 19 – Cochrane Decides to Withdraw Flawed Exercise Review
• Oct 18 – ME/CFS is not a psychosomatic illness
• Oct 17 – The Psychosomatic Conference’s Pathetic Response
• Oct 16 – Per Fink in New York
• Oct 10 – My First Post on the IAPT Program
• Oct 8 – My Latest Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
• Oct 1 – The CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference
• Sep 24 – The Open Letter to Netflix about Afflicted
• Sep 18 – Bruce Levin on “How Not to Conduct a Randomized Clinical Trial”
• Sep 17 – So What’s Happening with the MAGENTA Trial?
• Sep 3 – The Cochrane Controversy
• Aug 28 – Professor Edwards’ Letter to MRC’s Fiona Watt
• Aug 27 – Another Letter to BMJ’s Dr Godlee
• Aug 22 – My Letter to Red Whale/GP Update
• Aug 20 – FITNET-NHS Recruitment Ad Promotes “Recovery”
• Aug 20 – More Mayo, Please…
• Aug 15 – The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal
• Aug 12 – Open Letter to The Lancet, version 3.0
• Aug 5 – Mayo Still Champions GET
• Jul 30 – The CDC’s Update for Healthcare Providers
• Jul 16 – The Contentless “Editor’s Note” About the Lightning Process Trial
• Jul 11 – My Letter to Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee
• Jul 11 – Waiting for Godlee
• Jul 9 – Yet Another Appeal to The Lancet, With More On Board
• Jul 9 – Do All Clinical Trial Experts Love PACE?
• Jul 2 – My Letter to Fiona Godlee
• Jul 2 – Professor Sharpe’s Pre-Hearing Briefing for Monaghan
• Jun 25 – My Exchange With Professor Bishop
• Jun 25 – Professor Sharpe’s Intemperate Remarks–For Whom Is He Speaking?
• Jun 19 – An Open Letter to The Lancet, Two Years On
• Jun 18 – Sir Simon Scores an Own Goal
• Jun 18 – A Letter to NICE About the IAPT Program
• Jun 13 – A Curriculum for Treating CFS with CBT
• Jun 11 – More Letters About BMJ’s Flawed Pediatric Studies
• Jun 6 – My Letter to the Science Media Centre about BMJ Study
• Jun 6 – A Letter to Health Officials About BMJ’s Lax Editorial Standards
• Jun 5 – My Letter to MP Monaghan About BMJ Studies
• Jun 4 – BMJ Still “Looking Into” Lightning Process Paper
• May 29 – My 2011 NY Times Exchange With the PACE PIs
• May 28 – NICE’s Consideration of the Lightning Process
• May 23 – More on the CDC; Reader’s Digest; and BBC’s Newsbeat
• May 14 – Australia’s Online GET/CBT Education Program
• May 11 – May 12th-International ME Awareness Day
• May 7 – My Visits with Alem Matthees
• May 2 – A Q-and-A with Leonard Jason, on Case Definition
• Apr 25 – Goodbye, Australia; and Two Updates
• Apr 24 – Andrew Lloyd’s Past Endorsement of PACE
• Apr 24 – The Shopping Bag Study; and New York State’s Revamped Website
• Apr 18 – Professor Michael Sharpe’s Gaffe on Australian Radio
• Apr 16 – Guest Post: Crowdfunding David Tuller Is Not a Conflict of Interest
• Apr 16 – Two Interview Podcasts, and “Conflicts of Interest”
• Apr 11 – My Australian Tour, Continued
• Apr 4 – A Terrific Piece about ME/CFS on Australian TV
• Apr 4 – A Post About Andrew Lloyd
• Apr 2 – Our Latest Tango with BMJ Open…
• Apr 2 – My Berkeley-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign
• Mar 28 – A Q-and-A with Scottish MP Carol Monaghan
• Mar 27 – My Time in Canberra
• Mar 26 – Yet Another Go-Round with BMJ Open
• Mar 21 – Checking in from Melbourne and Canberra…
• Mar 14 – The Australian Situation, and Professor Crawley’s New Position
• Mar 12 – The Dutch Review; My Trip; Bristol’s Silence
• Mar 7 – Yesterday’s News from the CFS/ME Research Collaborative
• Mar 6 – My Exchange With Archives of Disease in Childhood
• Mar 5 – News About My Plans
• Feb 26 – Our Exchange of Views with BMJ Open
• Feb 19 – A Letter to BMJ Open
• Feb 13 – QMUL and FOI; Nature and Cochrane; the Pineapple Fund
• Feb 5 – Letter to British Journal of Sports Medicine from CPET Experts
• Jan 30 – A Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood
• Jan 16 – Professor Crawley’s Bogus BuzzFeed Claims
• Jan 15 – My Six-Month Review
• Jan 3 – COPE to BMJ Open: More Details, Please!
• Jan 2 – The School Absence Study, Revisited

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

• Dec 2 – The Dutch Studies (Again!), and an Esther Crawley Bonus
• Nov 28 – A Follow-Up Post on FITNET-NHS
• Nov 21 – The New FITNET Trial for Kids
• Sep 22 – The Real Data
• Sep 1 – My Questions for Lancet Editor Richard Horton
• Aug 29 – Once Again, Lancet Stumbles on PACE
• Feb 10 – An open letter to The Lancet, again
• Feb 1 – A Few Words About “Harassment”
• Jan 19 – More Nonsense from The Lancet Psychiatry
• Jan 7 – Did the PACE Trial Really Prove that Graded Exercise Is Safe?
• Jan 4 – Questions for Dr. White and his PACE Colleagues

• Dec 22 – Revisiting the PLoS One economics analysis of PACE
• Dec 17 – A request for data from the PACE trial
• Nov 17 – PACE Team’s Work for Insurance Companies Is “Not Related” to PACE. Really?
• Nov 13 – An open letter to Dr. Richard Horton and The Lancet
• Nov 9 – Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” Been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?
• Nov 4 – Did the PACE Study Really Adopt a ‘Strict Criterion’ for Recovery?
• Oct 30 – David Tuller responds to the PACE investigators
• Oct 29 – PACE trial investigators respond to David Tuller
• Oct 23 – The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (final installment)
• Oct 22 – The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (second installment)
• Oct 21 – The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study

• Nov 23 – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale