David Tuller

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

Someone asked me yesterday if they could still donate to the crowdfunder even though it technically ended Friday night and they missed the deadline. Yes! Berkeley has left the link open until midnight tonight, California time, for just this reason.
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

Yes, it's excellent! I've just seen it. Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for applying his usual care in highlighting @bmhughes.bsky.social's key points!!!

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

Berkeley's crowdfunding campaign for Trial By Error, which investigates problematic psycho-behavioral research involving ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc., has reached 98% of the goal, with one day remaining:
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

Thanks for flagging it @drfionac.bsky.social. For those interested, Berkeley's crowdfunding campaign for Trial By Error has reached 98% of the goal, with 500+ donations and one day remaining. crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

With several days left to go, the current Berkeley crowdfunder for Trial By Error has received 400 donations! The support is greatly appreciated!!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

For the first time, Berkeley's Trial By Error crowdfunding campaign has reached 50% of the goal right at the 15-day half-way point. Most times, it's at about a third at this point. If you'd like to donate, here's the link:
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

Dutch Paper on Medical Abuse of Kids Ignores NICE Guidance on ME/CFS-Related Safeguarding Issues
virology.ws/2025/10/20/t...

Thanks! Sorry! I wish I had control over the portal and it accepted paypal and other forms of payment. I have repeatedly asked about this. Berkeley uses a vendor's platform and for some reason they don't do that. It's a pain in the butt.

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

Berkeley's crowdfunder has reached 32% of the goal, with 199 donations so far. Who will make the 200th donation?
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

An interview with University of Edinburgh's Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social about the PRIME project to increase ME/CFS research infrastructure;
virology.ws/2025/10/13/t...

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

Berkeley's crowdfunder has reached 5% of the goal after its first day, with 49 donors! This pace won't keep up, but it's a decent start. Thanks to all past, current and future supporters!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025 Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!

Berkeley's fall crowdfunder for Trial By Error is now up!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

YouTube video by David M Tuller Interview with Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki

I spoke last week with Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki about her work on Long COVID. This interview has more than 1.3K views so far:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTa...

Thanks to Yale's Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social, a leading immunologist and Long COVID investigator, for talking with me yesterday about the recent Keystone Symposium, the
debate over viral persistence, and more. Here's our interview:
virology.ws/2025/09/26/t...

Long COVID is not FND, but some patients are getting diagnosed with it. Here’s what to do if it happens to you. - The Sick Times Some people with Long COVID are receiving potentially unhelpful diagnoses of functional neurological disorder (FND), a condition in which people experience neurological symptoms that cannot be attribu...

This piece for @thesicktimes.org about people with Long COVID receiving diagnoses of funcitonal neurological disorder...
thesicktimes.org/2025/09/26/l...

On Thursday there will be a preliminary injunction against the hospital. Pls help by reading & sharing this 🙏 #SaveSanne

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social @swastrosarah.bsky.social @nelehelena.bsky.social @davetuller1.bsky.social @anilvanderzee.bsky.social @tomkindlon.bsky.social @janetdafoe.bsky.social

Brian, they can't help themselves. It's such a deep-rooted instinct.

YouTube video by David M Tuller Interview with Ian Lipkin

Dr Ian Lipkin: "There's no question that threshold for triggering inflammation with ME/CFS is lower than the threshold in people who are healthy. So anything can set this off."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ih...

Nowhere near discharge yet but having such a large meeting recognise the limited NHS resources available to clinicians & patients was a better starting point than yet a-n-other re-run of an argument lost in 2021, with PFD report and responses from 6 national bodies as evidence of the risks being run

#Savannah #vsME update. A good MDT which ran over to twice the length of time allocated. Dr Weir and I were both invited, spoke at length and were heard. The absence of NHS ME specialists _anywhere_ in the UK is the biggest probem for every ICB, including Lewisham and Greenwich.

that's brilliant!!

When an Australian ME/CFS study of an exercise intervention failed to find enough participants, the investigators decided to blame patient advicates instead of questioning their assumptions:
virology.ws/2025/09/08/t...

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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Trial By Error: A (Satirical) Field Guide to Conducting Biopsychosocial Research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) | Virology Blog By David Tuller, DrPH A reader from Belgium sent me the following (satirical) paper she'd written for the "Journal of Entrenched Paradigms." ...

A Belgian with ME/CFS sent me the following satirical "field guide to conducting biopsychsocial research in CFS/ME":
virology.ws/2025/09/02/t...

Here's a post highlighting recent blogs worth reading from
@julierehmeyer.bsky.social on Beth Mazur's death, @whitneydafoe.bsky.social on "real life," and @drelke.bsky.social on society's exercise obsession

virology.ws/2025/08/28/t...

They mention PEM in the discussion or limitations section, but it's irrelevant in the context of the trials in the meta-analysis, which are all over the place in defining their populations but did not generally seem to be identifying people with PEM.

A major journal, eClinicalMedicine, published a meta-analysis claiming "high-certainty" evidence for exercise for Long COVID--even though the paper also acknowledged that most of the data used was of poor quality. Hm. I sent a letter to the journal.
virology.ws/2025/08/27/t...

Thanks for helping me do it!!!

I really enjoyed our two-step show that day!!! It happened just as Trump was starting to dismantle the research enterprise in the U.S.