Andy
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As usual, UC Berkeley has designated October as a month for campus projects to seek tax-deductible gifts through the university's crowdfunding platform. To support my Trial By Error project from January through June of 2022, I am seeking funding for my position (at 65%) as Senior Fellow in Public Health and Journalism at the Center for Global Public Health, which is part of the School of Public Health.
Of that amount, approximately $44,000 is for salary, $16,000 for health insurance/employment benefits, and the rest for Berkeley's 7.5 % gift fee.
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A Short Recap
I launched the "Trial By Error" series on Virology Blog in October, 2015, with a 15,000-word investigation of the disastrous PACE trial, which tested cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for the illness or cluster of illnesses variously known as ME, CFS, and ME/CFS. Since then, I have posted hundreds of blogs about that crap piece of research and related issues. I have written articles for major news organizations, authored or co-authored multiple peer-reviewed papers, and given talks in half a dozen countries.
Because the symptoms reported by many Long Covid patients overlap with those that characterize ME/CFS, PACE and its bogus findings have finally come under greater public scrutiny. In a widely read September article in The Atlantic about Long Covid, science journalist Ed Yong referred to PACE as "a now-discredited study." It is hard to express the thrill I felt when reading that phrase rendered as a normative statement in such a high-profile venue--even more so when I realized the phrase was linked to my Virology Blog investigation. It actually brought me close to tears.
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One Final Note
Berkeley takes a 5% share as the university's standard fee for gifts, plus 2.5% as a crowdfunding/credit card fee. Therefore, adding 7.5% to your donation will ensure that the full amount you intend is going toward the project itself. The donation is tax-deductible (for US taxpayers at least).
Thanks so much for your support. I really appreciate it, especially at this time of global trauma.
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A link to my original Trial By Error series: https://www.virology.ws/2015/10/21/trial-by-error-i/
A link to all the posts I have written on Virology Blog: http://www.virology.ws/mecfs/
To donate, visit https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513
As usual, UC Berkeley has designated October as a month for campus projects to seek tax-deductible gifts through the university's crowdfunding platform. To support my Trial By Error project from January through June of 2022, I am seeking funding for my position (at 65%) as Senior Fellow in Public Health and Journalism at the Center for Global Public Health, which is part of the School of Public Health.
Of that amount, approximately $44,000 is for salary, $16,000 for health insurance/employment benefits, and the rest for Berkeley's 7.5 % gift fee.
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A Short Recap
I launched the "Trial By Error" series on Virology Blog in October, 2015, with a 15,000-word investigation of the disastrous PACE trial, which tested cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for the illness or cluster of illnesses variously known as ME, CFS, and ME/CFS. Since then, I have posted hundreds of blogs about that crap piece of research and related issues. I have written articles for major news organizations, authored or co-authored multiple peer-reviewed papers, and given talks in half a dozen countries.
Because the symptoms reported by many Long Covid patients overlap with those that characterize ME/CFS, PACE and its bogus findings have finally come under greater public scrutiny. In a widely read September article in The Atlantic about Long Covid, science journalist Ed Yong referred to PACE as "a now-discredited study." It is hard to express the thrill I felt when reading that phrase rendered as a normative statement in such a high-profile venue--even more so when I realized the phrase was linked to my Virology Blog investigation. It actually brought me close to tears.
.....
One Final Note
Berkeley takes a 5% share as the university's standard fee for gifts, plus 2.5% as a crowdfunding/credit card fee. Therefore, adding 7.5% to your donation will ensure that the full amount you intend is going toward the project itself. The donation is tax-deductible (for US taxpayers at least).
Thanks so much for your support. I really appreciate it, especially at this time of global trauma.
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A link to my original Trial By Error series: https://www.virology.ws/2015/10/21/trial-by-error-i/
A link to all the posts I have written on Virology Blog: http://www.virology.ws/mecfs/
To donate, visit https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513