David Tuller
{{Short description|American journalist and academic}}
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David Tuller is a journalist and public health lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Global Public Health.{{Cite news |title=Sick and tired: Online activists are silencing us, scientists say |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/ |access-date=2023-01-24}}{{Cite web |title=Sick and Tired {{!}} Undiscovered |url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/undiscovered/episodes/sick-and-tired |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=WNYC Studios |language=en}} He spent his early career covering HIV/AIDS, then pivoted to ME/CFS.
Career
His career in public health began with AIDS advocacy in the 1980s. 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.{{Cite web |last=Baldinger |first=Scott |date=1996-08-21 |title=Cracks In The Iron Closet |url=https://www.salon.com/1996/08/21/sneakpeeks_138/ |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=Salon |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, Tuller |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3626780.html |website=University of Chicago Press}}
Currently, he is a senior fellow in public health and journalism at a crowdfunded position at Berkeley. Before it was widely accepted as such, he advocated for the acceptance of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as a biological condition. 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.{{Cite web |title=Criticism mounts of a long-controversial chronic fatigue study |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/criticism-mounts-long-controversial-chronic-fatigue-study |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=www.science.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Cort |date=2019-04-17 |title=David Tuller On Exposing the Bad Science Behind the Biopsychosocial Effort to Define ME/CFS |url=https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2019/04/17/tuller-bad-science-biopsycosocial-chronic-fatigue-me-cfs/ |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=Health Rising |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Jeff |date=2022-11-04 |title=Has Long COVID Always Existed? |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/is-long-covid-actually-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.html |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=Intelligencer |language=en-us}} Proponents of the controversial psychosomatic model, many of which were behind the PACE trial, accused their critics of harassment. Tuller disputed that his work encouraged this, saying his activities follow academic standards. Later, the claims of harassment were found to be “wildly exaggerated” by a tribunal judge.{{Cite journal |last1=Blease |first1=Charlotte |last2=Geraghty |first2=Keith J. |date=2018-09-01 |title=Are ME/CFS Patient Organizations "Militant"? |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9866-5 |journal=Journal of Bioethical Inquiry |language=en |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=393–401 |doi=10.1007/s11673-018-9866-5 |pmid=29971693 |issn=1872-4353|url-access=subscription }}
Publications
- Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia (1996, Faber and Faber, {{ISBN|978-0-57119-890-0}})
- {{Doi-inline|10.1177/1359105317703788|Once again, the PACE authors respond to concerns with empty answers}} (2017, Journal of Health Psychology)
- {{Doi-inline|10.1177/2055102919838907|The 'cognitive behavioural model' of chronic fatigue syndrome: Critique of a flawed model}} (2019, Health Psychology Open)
- {{Doi-inline|10.1093/occmed/kqab170|Chronic fatigue syndrome and occupational status: a retrospective longitudinal study}} (2022, Occupational Medicine)
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Category:21st-century American journalists
Category:American online journalists
Category:American medical journalists
Category:American science journalists
Category:University of California, Berkeley fellows