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Dr David Tuller: The Lightening Process is 'Effective'? Really?

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http://www.virology.ws/2019/05/20/trial-by-error-the-lightning-process-is-effective-really/

Trial By Error: The Lightning Process Is “Effective”? Really?
20 MAY 2019
By David Tuller, DrPH
BMJ seems to be in a state of paralysis over what to do about the Lightning Process study. The fact that this study was cited positively last month in a major review of pediatric CFS/ME (as the review called the illness) raises the stakes all around. The other day I sent the following letter to Dr Terry Segal, a pediatrician at London’s University College Hospital and the senior author of the review, which appeared in the journal Current Opinion in Pediatrics.
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Dear Dr Segal—