Barry
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
I agree in principle, but not sure what their legal situation would be. May be fine, I simply don't know.I think the ME charities should give donations.
I agree in principle, but not sure what their legal situation would be. May be fine, I simply don't know.I think the ME charities should give donations.
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.I think the ME charities should give donations. David has advanced the understanding of ME and made it possible to fight back against the BPS school of thought. Without any of this the charities would still be trying to do this themselves and wouldn't have been nearly as successful (not having a dedicated resource).
With everything David has accomplished it has meant the charities are able to focus more on other things including where new research should be targeted. The charities contribute to funding and I would say that a donation of £1000 from each of them wouldn't put too much of a dent in the amount that they put into research but it would make a huge difference to keeping David going and able to maintain the fight at the battlefront.
We are all benefiting from his work and it could be looked at as another form of research (I am trying to justify a donation in terms of where it would sit for a charity expenditure) - even if it is one where it is enabling us to discount and disprove the studies which have been massaged to give more appealing results (to some). Without this work the charities would be fighting a much harder battle and I think if they could support this cause as well it would give the final boost that is needed.
Yup, only took 2 daysIs the 5K matching met?
Worth donating now or is there another matching coming in the last days?
Worth donating now or is there another matching coming in the last days?
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.I think the ME charities should give donations.
I am waiting just in caseLost my nerve waiting for another matching pledge and did the deed.
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