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Trial By Error: In Protocol for Long COVID Exercise Trial, Investigators Advocate Lying to Participants

Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently: Anil on Sex, “Mold Warrior” Johnson, and a Rant Against the Word “Journey”

Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently–Aboriginals and Long COVID, Tips for Disability Claims, Profile of Ron Davis

A Viral Risk Factor for Lupus

Trial By Error: Journalist Simon Spichak on Lack of Focus on Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID Exercise Trials

Trial By Error: JAMA Touts Long COVID Exercise Trial with Clinically Insignificant Results; Most LC Exercise Trials Ignore PEM, Per Sick Times

Trial By Error: Another Exercise Trial with Clinically Insignificant Findings

Trial By Error: A New Cookbook for People with Chronic Illness

Vaccine Modalities – Part 2

Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Ten Years of Trial By Error

Trial By Error: Dutch Paper on Medical Abuse of Kids Ignores NICE Guidance on ME/CFS-Related Safeguarding Issues

Trial By Error: Lancet Journal Agrees to Correct Seriously Flawed Paper on Long COVID Interventions

Trial By Error: Interview with Professor Chris Ponting on Building ME/CFS Research Infructure with PRIME

Vaccine Modalities – Part 1

Trial By Error: My Letter to Cochrane’s Chief Executive Officer

Trial By Error: Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki on the Keystone Symposium, the Debate on Viral Persistence, and Related Issues

Trial By Error: Cochrane CFS Exercise Review “May Not Apply” to Patients Diagnosed with Newer ME/CFS Definitions, Per Lead Author

Trial By Error: “Mass Psychogenic Illness” at Heathrow Airport–NOT!

Trial By Error: Interview with Columbia’s Ian Lipkin on Heightened Immune Response in ME/CFS, Funding Challenges, and Current Research

Trial By Error: Australian Investigators Blame ME/CFS Patient Advocates for Poor Recruitment in “Active Video Gaming” Trial

A Universal Antiviral Drug

Trial By Error: A (Satirical) Field Guide to Conducting Biopsychosocial Research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)

Trial By Error: Three Blogs–Julie Rehmeyer on Beth Mazur’s Death; Whitney Dafoe on Real Life; Elke Hausmann on Exercise and “The Salt Path”

Trial By Error: Letter to eClinicalMedicine about Exercise Recommendations in Flawed Meta-Analysis of Long COVID Interventions

Trial By Error: Hungarian Experts Make Goulash out of NICE Guidelines

Trial By Error: Keystone Gathering Update; Anil’s Severe ME Day Video; Fractured Care for Post-Infectious Illness

Trial By Error: Lancet Paper Claims “Exercise” Should be “Prioritized” in Long COVID Rehabilitation

Trial By Error: DecodeME Pre-Print Reports Eight “Genetic Signals” Related to Immune Function and Nervous System

The Deadliest Virus

Trial By Error: BMJ’s “Commissioned” Propaganda Piece Hijacked Death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill; Boothby O’Neill’s Mum Responds

Trial By Error: After ME-Related Suicide, Second Coroner in England Issues “Report to Prevent Future Deaths”

Trial By Error: Oxford Scholars Blame Biomedical Research Hegemony for Fibromyalgia “Chronicity Rhetoric”

Trial By Error: Study Finds Signs of “Functional Limb Weakness” in Patients Not Reporting Actual Limb Weakness

Trial By Error: Interview with Dutch Journalist Sander Zurhake

Trial By Error: Updated Medical Textbook Still Promotes Biopsychosocial Ideology

A Pill to Prevent Gastroenteritis

Trial By Error: Dutch Journalist Faces Off Against CBT/GET Ideologues

Trial By Error: An Interview with Sjoerd Beentjes, Lead Author of Big Data Study on “Blood-Based Biomarkers” for ME/CFS

Trial By Error: Edinburgh Study Links ME/CFS to “Blood-Based Biomarkers”

H5N1 in U.S. Dairy Cattle: An Unprecedented Event in the History of Virology

Trial By Error: Dr Rob Wüst on ME/CFS, Long Covid and Deconditioning

Trial By Error: Canadian GET/CBT Campaigners Publish Propaganda Cosplaying as Research on Twitter Trends

Trial By Error: More on the BMJ Opinion Piece from the Psychobabblers

Trial By Error: BMJ Publishes New Propaganda Piece on Severe ME/CFS

Trial By Error: Pushback on “Brief Outpatient Rehab” Trial for Long Covid from Norwegian Ideological Brigades

Trial By Error: A Letter Seeking a Correction in FMD Physiotherapy Paper

Trial By Error: When Primary Outcomes Yield Null Results in Clinical Trials, FND Experts Prefer Their Secondary Outcomes

Trial By Error: Australian GPs Keep Promoting Exercise Treatments for ME/CFS

Trial By Error: Andrew Ewing & David Joffe on Just-Published “Global Expert Consensus” on Long Covid

Trial By Error: #MEAction’s Jaime Seltzer on Where We’ve Been, What We’ve Learned, and Where Things Are Now

Trial By Error: In a Compelling Documentary, Five Doctors Discuss Being Sick

A Vaccine Against Dementia

Trial By Error: Null Results in Physiotherapy Trial for Functional Motor Disorder

Trial By Error: New Zealand GP Group Disavows Lightning Process Endorsement; BBC’s Con or Cure Takes Skeptical Look at LP

Trial By Error: My Visits with Alem Matthees, 2025

Trial By Error: A 2015 Letter from the Countess of Mar to Suzanne O’Sullivan

Trial By Error: Suzanne O’Sullivan’s “Psychosomatic” Mis-Diagnoses

Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently…

Trial By Error: Lancet Letter Exchange on Claimed Success of “Persistent Physical Symptoms” Trial Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings

Vitamin A, Cod Liver Oil, and Measles

Trial By Error: New Study Documents Iatrogenic Harm from Perceived Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Misdiagnoses of Rheumatic Diseases

Trial By Error: BMJ’s Strange Response to Our Letter of Concern Regarding “Living Systematic Review” of Long Covid Interventions

Trial By Error: A Reprise of a 2018 Post on My Visits with Alem Matthees