Tag Archives: Susan Maier

P2P FOIA Documents, Part 7—Collins, Murray and Maier: Trouble in NIH Paradise

David Murray’s (Director of NIH’s Office of Disease Prevention) noticing of a ProHealth blog entry started an avalanche of bizarre email exchanges within NIH that included, among others, Francis Collins, James Anderson and Larry Tabak. I received these emails after winning my … Continue reading

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P2P FOIA Documents, Part 6—”File all these responses. No need to answer them directly.”

Here are more P2P emails that were produced to me after I won my IOM FOIA lawsuit. Today’s documents are NIH and AHRQ emails relating to inquiries from the public regarding the ME/CFS P2P program and the “TPs,” the talking points NIH developed … Continue reading

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P2P FOIA Documents, Part 5—ME/CFS P2P Violates NIH Rules, Woot Woot!

Starting in August of last, year, NIH went through the elaborate process of rebranding the program that had until then been known as the Evidence-based Methodology Workshop (“EbMW”). The new shiny brand that emerged after an enormous bureaucratic effort—whose necessity is less … Continue reading

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P2P FOIA Documents, Part 4–NIH: Neither Patients Nor Science Meant to Be Part of P2P

The documents I am releasing today at this link relate to the P2P working group. I published some of them previously in my P2P FOIA Documents, Part 2: “We also recently had a FOIA request on CFS.” But to I thought t would … Continue reading

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P2P: “Patients to Purgatory” or the Jury Model Stood on its Head

“They don’t know. They don’t know anything.”—Susan Maier about the P2P panel members On January 27, 2014, the Institute of Medicine (“IOM”) held its first out of five meetings relating to the development of diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS. It was … Continue reading

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