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

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.
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.
 
Worth donating now or is there another matching coming in the last days?

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.)
 
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I think the ME charities should give donations.
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'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.
 
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