David Tuller’s fundraiser is now live! Tuller has been tireless in his battle against the GET/CBT ideological onslaught! He has much more work to do and he needs our support.
Tuller has written more than seventy-five posts on Vincent Racaniello’s Virology Blog, spanning seven years. His articles comprise a full history of how the PACE trial was used to mislead health care providers into thinking ME/CFS could be cured with “a walk and a talk.” Tuller has taken on some of the authors of the PACE study and, despite threats from them, has continued to challenge their findings.
This year, Tuller will be looking at intersections between the pandemic and ME, such as concerns about whether some COVID-19 patients will develop an ME-like disease. He will be keeping an eye out for new bad research (think: CBT and GET) and keeping an eye on goings-on at the CDC, the NIH and elsewhere.
Last year, Tuller successfully raised money through Crowdrise in order to continue investigating and blogging about the PACE trial. The funds went to the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, which created a position for Tuller to continue his investigative work. Now, a year later, the funds have run out, and Tuller has to depend on the generosity of our community to continue his work.
With deep appreciation for your tireless Advocacy, I can personally attest that CBT is NOT the cure for ME/CFS. During my 30+ years of seeking to survive it, I’d undertaken 6.5 years of CBT, and while it did help some to Grieve the profound losses I’d endured via ME/CFS – one of which was to have lost 51-70 points in my IQ (which debunked it being ‘depression’ or ‘PTSD’ – along with a positive TTT) – it certainly did NOT provide a CURE. Perhaps, instituting a registry for others who have had this deliberately mis-diagnosed, Gaslit experience, which will serve to debunk CBT once and for all, might be useful. Now, with the newer (COVID) Pandemic upon us, further medical validation can certainly be applied.