Crowdfunding for David Tuller during April 2026

[Chandelier]

Trial By Error: Final (Berkeley) Chapter 2026

Help UC Berkeley raise $75,000 for the project: Trial By Error: Final (Berkeley) Chapter 2026. Your gift will make a difference!

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Trial By Error: Reporting on ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, & so on...​

I am turning 70 in October and am planning to retire from UC Berkeley at the end of this year. That means this crowdfunding campaign will be the last one for this iteration of Trial By Error, since it will cover my position from July 1 through December 31. (My next steps are not yet clear; I could continue the project in some form. I just don't know.)

I launched Trial By Error in October, 2015, with a 15,000-word investigation of the fraudulent PACE trial, which tested cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as curative treatments for what was then being called chronic fatigue syndrome. What I thought was a one-off somehow morphed into an extended academic project on psycho-behavioral research across a broad range of conditions, including what is known as Long COVID.

Amazingly, the pandemic and its consequences have rendered much of my earlier work relevant in a way I could never have anticipated. I had planned to end the project a couple of years ago, but decided to continue as I saw the same investigators I'd already criticized for their flawed research pursuing the exact same strategies in taking on Long COVID.

In the last 11 years, I have written many hundreds of blog posts, instigated dozens of corrections in published papers, posted interviews with experts in the field, written multiple articles and commentaries for both mainstream and peer-reviewed publications, and presented at conferences and other venues in almost a dozen countries. My work has played a major role in the ongoing shift in how ME/CFS is viewed, and Long COVID along with it. I expect to continue in the same vein through the end of this year.

(I have raised the campaign goal slightly because costs of employment (especially for health insurance) have increased in recent years, and the fund has run slightly behind. I am committed to continuing to work until the end of December, whether or not the full goal is reached.)

One Final Note

Berkeley takes a 7.5% share as the university's standard fee for gifts, plus 2.5% as a credit card fee. Therefore, adding 10% 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).

Thanks so much for your support. I really, really appreciate it, especially at this time of global trauma.

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A link to all of my posts on Virology Blog: https://trialbyerror.org/archives/

 

[Wonko]

I found one of the emails, well I found 3, in my junk folder earlier today.

I have never marked Mr Tullers emails as spam.

So if anyones wondering why they haven't received any, check your spam folder.

 

[Peter T]

I found one of the emails, well I found 3, in my junk folder earlier today.

I also noted that a couple of @dave30th ’s emails had gone to spam this round, which I don’t recollect happening before.

 

[dave30th]

Thanks for alerting me. that's interesting. I wonder if that's happened to many people. I've never heard that before. I'm going to try to send out messages from my Berkeley e-mail, rather than the crowdfunding platform. That might bypass the spam filter.

 

[RainbowCloud]

@dave30th I just tried and it came up with a ‘This connection is not secure’ when I clicked the crowdfund link in your email, which hasn’t happened to me before.

Won’t stop people donating, may just be a slower start!