In his "gotcha" comment, Zachary Grin wrote: "The journal does not need to issue a correction. You need to correct your misunderstanding. There is no way for you to twist this one." Oops! The journal and the authors apparently disagreed with Zachary. Nice try, Zachary!!!
After I asked for a correction for a paper's categorical statement about what is "generating" functional neurological symptoms, a therapist specializing in FND demanded I apologize to the authors. However, the authors immediately said they will revise the problematic sentence. 1/
My first post about that Wired piece: virology.ws/2026/06/09/t...
I wrote a letter to a journal asking for a correction to a categorical statement about functional neurological symptoms. An FND expert demanded I apologize to the journal and the authors. I responded. Here's our exchange. virology.ws/2026/05/27/t...
An interview with Professor Chris Ponting, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, about the recently announced follow-up to DecodeME called Sequence ME & Long Covid. virology.ws/2026/05/31/t...
After years of declaring categorically that functional neurological disorder was solely a brain "software" problem with nothing else wrong, FND experts now acknowledge that the "software"-only hypothesis is out the window:
virology.ws/2026/05/20/t...
A recent paper made a categorical assertion about the cause of functional neurological symptoms. This definitive statement is unwarranted, given the state of the evidence. I have written to the journal asking for the sentence to be corrected: virology.ws/2026/05/25/t...
Last year, I posted a blog about a major treatment trial for functional motor disorder. Three people posted critical comments that, unknown to me, were blocked by the algorithm. I have now approved them and am reposting this blog so people can read them: virology.ws/2025/04/21/t...
Thanks, @jenniejacques1.bsky.social!!
By David Tuller, DrPH Much has already been written about Alan Levinovitz’ 7,600-word love poem to the potential healing powers of so-called “mind-body” int ...
This has been a challenging crowdfunding for Berkeley's Trial by Error project on ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc, but it seems like things are catching up in the final days. Now at 80% of the goal! Thanks to all!!! crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/49720
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I wrote a letter to a journal asking for a correction to a categorical statement about functional neurological symptoms. An FND expert demanded I apologize to the journal and the authors. I responded. Here's our exchange. virology.ws/2026/05/27/t...
