David Tuller crowdfund: Trial By Error: Reporting on ME/CFS and Related Controversies

I agree in principle, but not sure what their legal situation would be. May be fine, I simply don't know.

 

I hope they pitch in for the remainder if it falls short. I have a little more to give if necessary but the ROI is pretty much the best we have right now. Research is the most important long-term avenue but there is so much disinformation to counter yet, itself a huge barrier to get more research funding.

 

$84,507, 88% of target, 5 days left

837 donors

UK: 316
US: 154
Norway: 96
Swe: 71

Donate from as little as $10 at https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/14941

 

Norway is doing a lot of work here relative to its size.

 

$84,880
89% of target
850 Donors
5 days left

Project ends on April 30, at 11:59

 

Is the 5K matching met?
Worth donating now or is there another matching coming in the last days?

 

Yup, only took 2 days don’t know if there will be another, if so they’re leaving it very late.

 

Don't know either. I guess this is going to get rather thrilling either way due to the reasons others wrote before. Hopefully, Berkley's crowdfunding website won't break down on April 30th.

I could only spare a very tiny contribution and split that up between an even tinier amount via the bank transfer circuit provided by the Dutch ME/cvs Vereniging and a personal donation to the Berkeley crowdfunding. The former to show my appreciation to have the possibility to donate without having a credit card, plus the possibility to make smaller donations than 10$ - I think that's very helpful for many pwME who (like me) are even struggling to get an ME patients organization's membership paid.

On Berkeley's crowdfunding procedure I added under "Explain your affiliation" some words of praise for David's outstanding journalistic work on behalf of ME research and pwME.

I am happy that I was able to donate this year.

To all who are not able to contribute financially or otherwise, please feel assured that those who are able will include you in their donations. (I'm too unwell at the moment to assess whether I put this in proper words, I hope it's nunderstandable, though.)

 

I think this is hard for them. If they give to me, they'd be asked to give to anyone doing something that seems worthwhile. I assume they have politics that govern these kinds of things. I can understand why the main groups--Action For ME and ME Association--would have difficulty with that. I also don't know that it is necessarily helpful for them to be so connected to me. Nor do I want to feel that I need to cover what they do just because they've donated to me.

 

$86,524, 91% of target, 3 days left

883 donors

UK: 330
US: 160
Norway: 99
Swe: 83 (Sweden on a charge here!)

Donate from as little as $10 at https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/14941

 

Lost my nerve waiting for another matching pledge and did the deed.

Germany: 25 donors (#7)

 

I am waiting just in case
I put an alert on my phone for Monday because i will forget otherwise and make no donation

 

I don't think there will be another matching pledge but I wonder if someone will make a large donation at the last minute to top up to $95000. Hope so!

 

Have donated my second amount. No more unless win lottery tonight!

 

I'm waiting too. Hopefully many others are waiting. I wanted to donate for the double donation but due to bank error I couldn't withdraw money. By the time it was fixed the money had been doubled. . I'll wait until tomorrow. It is great to see that money is going into the fund all the time . I don't think there is another David Tuller out there. Seeing new additions to the list of MUS ,FND and FSS so often and the media deception that is still so active increases our need for his work so much. I was naive enough to expect more from Reuters, for some reason I thought they had standards. How wrong I was. I hope the truth will win the day soon. David's work will have well documented the struggle to get there. And that in itself is important.

 

Just done mine too...money well spent and Mrs Sloth agrees too.