Tag: spotila
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Why Did the NIH List an Award for Research on Cancer-Related Fatigue in Its List of Spending on ME/CFS?
Each year, the US National Institutes of Health publishes its “estimates of funding for various research, condition, and disease categories.” These estimates are provided in a lengthy table with the figures calculated “based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms used across the National Institutes of Health.” For many years, the amount reported to be…
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Jennie Spotila’s Annual Fact-Check of NIH Spending on ME/CFS Research
There is a lot going on in the ME and ME/CFS world that I don’t get around to. That’s why I’m always grateful that Jennie Spotila always deconstructs the numbers on the annual spending claims from the National Institutes of Health. Last month, on her blog Occupy M.E., Spotila submitted the NIH’s 2020 numbers to…
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Jennie Spotila Tracks Down–and Busts–an Old Tale About “Death Threats” from Patients
In early 2011, the first report of the PACE results in The Lancet drew widespread criticism from patients and advocates. Later that year, stories about unhinged, anti-science patients harassing and threatening leading researchers in the field appeared in high-profile UK outlets like BMJ and The Times. In the UK, this appears to have been orchestrated…