David Tuller
Bornc. 1957[1]
OccupationJournalist

David Tuller is a journalist and public health lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Global Public Health.[1][2]

Career

His career in public health began with AIDS advocacy in the 1980s.[1] He is also the author of Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, a 1997 book on LGBT history and life in Russia based on Tuller's travels and interviews with LGBT Russians.[3][4]

Currently, he is a senior fellow in public health and journalism at a crowdfunded position at Berkeley.[1] He advocates for the acceptance of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as a biological, rather than psychological, condition, having argued his view in over 140 blog posts.[1] In 2015, he published "Trial by Error," a four-part article criticizing the design of the PACE trial, a controversial study that claimed CBT and graded exercise therapy were effective treatments for ME/CFS, and alleging conflicts of interest among the trial's investigators.[5][6][7] He describes psychosomatic ME/CFS research as very low quality.[1] Proponents of the psychosomatic model have accused their opponents of harassment. Tuller disputes that his work encourages this, saying his activities follow academic standards.[1]

Publications

  • Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia (1996, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-57119-890-0)
  • Once again, the PACE authors respond to concerns with empty answers (2017, Journal of Health Psychology)
  • The 'cognitive behavioural model' of chronic fatigue syndrome: Critique of a flawed model (2019, Health Psychology Open)
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome and occupational status: a retrospective longitudinal study (2022, Occupational Medicine)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Sick and tired: Online activists are silencing us, scientists say". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  2. ↑ "Sick and Tired | Undiscovered". WNYC Studios. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  3. ↑ Baldinger, Scott (1996-08-21). "Cracks In The Iron Closet". Salon. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  4. ↑ "Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, Tuller". University of Chicago Press.
  5. ↑ "Criticism mounts of a long-controversial chronic fatigue study". www.science.org. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  6. ↑ Johnson, Cort (2019-04-17). "David Tuller On Exposing the Bad Science Behind the Biopsychosocial Effort to Define ME/CFS". Health Rising. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  7. ↑ Wise, Jeff (2022-11-04). "Has Long COVID Always Existed?". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
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