Trial By Error

Category: dutch

  • Dutch Survey Respondents Rate GET/CBT as “the Worst” Approach, Per New Report

    A survey of more than 1500 patients in the Netherlands with a diagnosis of ME, CFS or ME/CFS rated graded exercise therapy as “the worst” interventions, according to an article on the site of the ME and Disability Support Group, while “explanation and advice about the importance of lying down to prevent worsening of complaints,…

  • Yet More Stupidity from the Dutch CBT Fan Club

    *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley for my Trial by Error project. If you appreciate my work and would like to help support it, here’s the link for this November’s campaign. As I pointed out last month when I reviewed a ridiculous study of “psychosomatic therapy” for “persistent somatic symptoms,” the Dutch psychologizers can’t seem…

  • A Crap Study on “Psychosomatic Therapy” for “Persistent Somatic Symptoms”

    *This post has been corrected. I initially wrote that the protocol did not appear to call for sub-group analyses, but it appears it did. I also included a passage about that is from documentation in the supplemental material. I had identified it as coming from the protocol. I apologize for the errors. Dutch investigators appear…

  • Authors of Dutch Long Covid Paper Contradict Each Other

    I have slammed a recent Dutch study, Kuut et al, that investigated CBT for fatigue after an acute bout of COVID-19. The study, “Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” nicknamed ReCOVer, was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a well-regarded journal, and proclaimed itself a…

  • More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue

    I recently wrote about a Dutch study published a few months ago in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases–“Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study, nick-named ReCOVer, found that unblinded trials relying on subjective outcomes will produce modestly positive reports in the group receiving…