David Tuller

Insane!!! At least as a matter of science. Maybe that's how they do things in medical sociology???

The BMJ has not published a rapid resopnse from Maeve Boothby O'Neill's mum, @swastrosarah.bsky.social‬, to its ME/CFS "hope" propaganda piece from members of the biopsychosocial ideological brigades. So I have posted it here. virology.ws/2025/07/23/t...

a man is holding a microphone in his mouth and saying if you smell ALT: a man is holding a microphone in his mouth and saying if you smell

Latest blog, breaking down some common narrative tricks bullshitters use so you can hopefully start to sniff it out a bit easier

Do you smell what the bull is shitting?
dontbelievehype.co.uk/bullshit-bre...

Oxford scholars say biomedical research requirements for evidence help "construct" what they call "chronicity rhetoric" around fibromyalgia. That means biopsychosocialists aren't allowed to make whatever "recovery" claims they want. Hm. virology.ws/2025/07/18/t...

A study from Japan in a BMJ journal found that 100 of almost 300 Long Covid patients who had neurological exams showed "positive signs" of functional limb weakness. The problem? Only 16 of those 100 patients reported actual limb weakness during the neurological exams: virology.ws/2025/07/15/t...

YouTube video by David M Tuller Sander Zurhake

Sander Zurhake, a journalist with NOS, the Dutch broadcast organization, recently reported on the potential harms of psycho-behavioral treatment for kids with ME/CFS and received some pushback. This interview with him has had 1000+ views so far:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxT...

maybe a few. but these people had thorough neurological exams. If they were given so-called tests for functional limb weakness, you'd think they would have been asked about and reported limb weakness, if they had it. So here, only 14 of the 100 with positive signs reported real-world limb weakness.

Contemporary positive signs of functional limb weakness in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an exploratory analysis of their utility in diagnosis and follow-up Background Sequelae of the acute phase of coronavirus disease-19, termed long COVID, are characterised by numerous indicators, including neurological symptoms. Functional neurological disorder (FND) c...

In this study of "functional limb weakness" (FLW) among almost 300 Long Covid patients, 100 had "rule-in" FLW signs. But only 16 of those 100 reported limb weakness as symptom. How can they have FLW without actual limb weakness? Hm. Kinda fuzzy!
neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/...

YouTube video by David M Tuller Sander Zurhake

Sander Zurhake, a journalist with NOS, the Dutch broadcast organization, recently reported on the potential harms of psycho-behavioral treatment for kids with ME/CFS and received some pushback. Here's my talk with him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxT...

The just-updated version of Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, a fixture of decades of medical education, continues to promote the biopsychosocial ideology when it comes to ME/CFS: virology.ws/2025/07/04/t...

thanks, yeah--it took a few days to get access to it again. Now i can't seem to delete the crypto repostings

A journalist for a major Dutch broadcast network covered the potential harms of CBT/GET for kids with ME/CFS. Some of the Dutch wing of the CBT/GET ideological brigades pushed back. virology.ws/2025/06/25/t...

Investigators at U of Edinburgh just published a study on "blood-based" traits that differ--on a population level--between people diagnosed with ME/CFS and others. I spoke earlier today with lead author Sjoerd Beentjes: virology.ws/2025/06/23/t...

After doing this for ten years, I wonder if the PACE "truther" movement will ever come to an end. Will it eventually die out under the weight of its own stupidity? Or will these deluded people believe till the end that PACE was "a thing of beauty"?

YouTube video by David M Tuller Interview with Guardian columnist George Monbiot about the London-based Science Media Centre

The so-called Science Media Centre called in PACE "truther" Alan Carson to weigh in on the new Edinburgh study about blood-based biomarkers for ME/CFS. Here's my interview from last year with Guardian columnist George Monbiot on the SMC's shady history: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1W4...

I agree in general, but they've shifted slightly in this domain since the PACE days. They'll always include one or two opposition-ists like Carson, but will also balance that with others who are apparently not similarly
ideologically committed.

Terrific documentary, definitely worth watching!!!

Thanks to Professor Vincent Racaniello for having me back on This Week in Virology to talk about RFK Jr. and the trashing of American public health, The Sick Times, the Cochrane ME/CFS Mess, a Norwegian Long Covid trial, "effort preference," etc.
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I interviewed Dr Rob Wüst about his team's new study comparing effects of exercise on people with ME/CFS and Long Covid vs effects on healthy controls who were deconditioned after 60 days of bedrest: virology.ws/2025/06/04/t...

A propaganda piece for CBT/GET cosplaying as "research" on Twitter trends, from Canada's McMaster U. The trends they report are interesting--then the researchers essentially say in the discussion that everything patients are tweeting is wrong.
virology.ws/2025/06/02/t...

Chronic Denial A debunked theory about chronic fatigue syndrome is being recycled to explain Long Covid—with troubling results.

This piece in Open Mind discusses how the adherents of CBT/GET for ME have sought to extend their purview to Long Covid, with the same sort of shifty methodological maneuvers:
www.openmindmag.org/articles/goi...

The BMJ has a long history of publishing stuff promoting the "biopsychosocial" approach to ME and ME/CFS: virology.ws/2025/05/24/t...

The BMJ's recent propaganda piece about severe ME/CFS hijacked Maeve Boothby O'Neill's death to bolster its arguments. The lead author of the piece did that last summer as well: virology.ws/2025/05/21/t...

Cadenza for Fractured Consciousness: A Personal History of the World’s Most Misunderstood Illness For the last three years, I’ve worked on a personal research project; an effort to summarize the history, biology, and social implications of FND. It tells some of my own story and experience…

And here is FND Portal's essay again--very much worth a read. Whatever one's views of the science in the FND field, the awful suffering and frustration faced by patients is palpable. fndportal.org/2022/06/05/c...

And I have also repeatedly linked to FND Portal's essay so people can read about the experience of having it, which he describes very compellingly. I began looking at the FND research after the FND experts like Stone came out swinging in defense of the fraudulent PACE trial.

just to be clear--I have harshly criticized FND research that I think are sub-par and making unwarranted assertions based on flimsy evidence. But I have never remotely suggested patients are faking it, making it up, or doing anything other than suffering terribly from poorly understood conditions.1/

ya think??

oops! What's the type???

FND experts seem to throw their primary outcomes under the bus when they fail to produce the desired results:

virology.ws/2025/05/12/t...

Australian GPs keep pushing exercise treatments for ME/CFS: virology.ws/2025/05/09/t...