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Trial By Error: Some Recent Observations from Alem Matthees
By David Tuller, DrPH In one of past year’s more amazing developments in our domain of interest, Alem Matthees has been actively communicating again. On December 10, 2025, I received my first e-mail from him in almost ten years. He has also been expressing himself publicly with…
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Trial By Error: Protest at Norwegian Parliament Over Upcoming “Long-Term Fatigue” Guidelines
By David Tuller, DrPH In Norway this week, three major patient advocacy organizations—the Norwegian ME Association, the Norwegian Covid Association, and ME Parents—are planning a demonstration outside the country’s parliament in Oslo, the capital. Their main demand: a separate…
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Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently…BBC on Olympic Sprinter with Long COVID; Anil van der Zee on Suicide; Physician vs. Patient Knowledge
By David Tuller, DrPH Olympic Sprinter Bedbound for 22 Hours a Day The BBC has profiled Beth Dobbin, a top-level sprinter who is, per the story’s headline, “now bedbound for 22 hours a day” with a severe case of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). In 2021, Dobbin, 32, represented…
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Trial By Error: Springer Nature Removes Description of “Fatigue” Patients as “Combative” and “Reproachful”–UPDATED
By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE POSTED AN HOUR LATER: Shortly after posting this blog, I learned that Volker Köllner, the senior co-author of the chapter in question, had posted a few hours earlier on LinkedIn that the culprit responsible for the “falsified version” that had…
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Seven Ways to Get to the Viral Message
Gertrud U. Rey Throughout history, scientists have developed classification systems to organize complex fields of study. Linnaeus classified plants and animals, Fedorov catalogued crystals, and Mendeleev organized the chemical elements into a framework that laid the foundation…
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Trial By Error: Interview with George Monbiot on Recent Guardian Column
By David Tuller, DrPH As I mentioned last week, George Monbiot, the British investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Guardian, published a corker of a column about the mistreatment and abuse of people with ME/CFS, including those with Long COVID. Previous Monbiot…
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Trial By Error: Blistering New Monbiot Column on ME/CFS Mistreatment, Neglect
By David Tuller, DrPH George Monbiot, the British investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Guardian, has written a corker of a column about the mistreatment and abuse of people with ME/CFS, including those with Long COVID. This newest piece follows two of…
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Trial By Error: Journal of Psychosomatic Research Publishes First-Person Account of “Cure” with the Lightning Process
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research (JPR), an official publication of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM), has long served as something of a promotional organ for members of the biopsychosocial (BPS) ideological brigades. That’s not…
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Trial By Error: A Study of The Switch, New Zealand’s Homegrown Version of the Lightning Process, Yields Meaningless Findings
By David Tuller, DrPH The Switch is a New Zealand variant of the Lighting Process, the so-called “mind-body” intervention created by a Phil Parker, a British former faith healer who once declared that he had “this ability to step into other people’s bodies… to assist them in…
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Trial By Error: Newly Knighted Anil van der Zee Discusses his Royal Honor
By David Tuller, DrPH A few days ago, I posted a blog about how Anil van der Zee, a bedbound Dutch ME/CFS patient, had been awarded a royal honor in recognition of the many years he has pushed hard to correct misinformation, debunk bad research, organize educational events, and…
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A Viral Trigger for Cholera
by Gertrud U. Rey The recent cholera outbreak in Myanmar, along with recurring outbreaks in Haiti and other regions where access to clean water and sanitation remains inconsistent, highlight the continued global public health burden of this disease. Cholera is caused by the…
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Trial By Error: Patient Advocate Anil van der Zee Receives Dutch Royal Distinction
By David Tuller, DrPH Last month, I was delighted to hear that my friend Anil van der Zee, who has been bed bound with ME/CFS for years, had been selected to receive a royal honor for his indefatigable efforts to advocate for patients. The award—Knight in the Order of…
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Trial By Error: Canada’s McMaster University Launches Trial of Lightning Process for Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has launched a clinical trial of the Lightning Process (LP), a well-known “mind-body” intervention, as a treatment for Long Covid. The study, called Fatigue in Long COVID, or FALCON, was registered last month on…
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Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Recently Read…Ponting on BPS, Viral Reactivation, and ME/CFS and HIV/AIDS
By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Ponting on the biopsychosocial approach Chris Ponting, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, has long been a critic of biopsychosocial treatments for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related illnesses. Professor Ponting is the lead investigator of…
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Trial By Error: CFS “Recovery” Findings Might Be “Suppressed,” Says Report
By David Tuller, DrPH In the late 1980s, the UK and international health establishments began promoting a recovery narrative regarding what was then called chronic fatigue syndrome. Recovery was attainable, they asserted, through interventions like cognitive behavior therapy and…
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Virology Without Borders
by Gertrud U. Rey This article marks my 100th contribution to Virology Blog since I published my first post on March 1, 2018. Above all, I have learned that nature does not recognize the boundaries humans use to organize scientific disciplines. My host Vincent Racaniello and the…