Crowdfunding: Trial By Error: Reporting on ME, CFS, ME/CFS, "medically unexplained symptoms," and related stuff, Fall 2021

Yeah I'm not the best at marketing. This is a good idea.

 

i received a so called update to the fund raising it was for the last one a hundred and three thousand. there are times when i am cognitively impaired were i would simply think it is done instead of checking the date . i have been happy to contribute for the last couple of years because i appreciate the value of your work David .why does berkley struggle so much with their software ,

 

Hi, sorry about this! The software Berkeley uses--called ScaleFunder--is inadequate in many ways. One big way is that there is not a system for extracting e-mails of past donors and sending them a new message. The only way is to send an update from a previous campaign--which makes no sense, since those campaigns are over. But if I want to reach past donors directly and alert them to the current campaign, I have to send them that kind of update from a past campaign. I'm really sorry that creates some confusion. I was surprised to learn there is no other way to reach past donors unless I manually create a list of 1000 e-mails. I have complained about this but it is what it is, unfortunately.

 

$14,855 received, 23% of total.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513

 

I have put in my two cents x ?

 

Trial By Error: UC Berkeley’s October Crowdfunding Campaign

"When I launched the Trial By Error project in 2015 with a 15,000-word investigation of the piece of crap known more formally as the PACE trial, I had no idea I was launching anything. I figured it was a one-off. After all, could such a disaster of a study really survive the sort of in-depth scrutiny to which I had just subjected PACE? I assumed a retraction would be forthcoming. (In truth, 15,000 words was not nearly enough to cover all the methodological and ethical flaws that marred this awful trial.)

Boy, was I stupid, or at least unbelievably naïve. Lancet editor Richard Horton ignored my investigation, ignored the open letters from distinguised experts condemning the trial, ignored the fact that PACE represented a possible case of serious research misconduct, if not worse. Six years later, PACE remains in the literature—a potent symbol of the many failings of the peer-review system that science has long relied on for quality assurance.

Of course, that 2015 examination turned out to be only the beginning of this project. As many know, I have supported this work through donations to UC Berkeley through the university’s crowdfunding platform, which is open to campus projects in April and October.

So here’s the pitch from this month’s crowdfunding campaign."

https://www.virology.ws/2021/10/07/trial-by-error-uc-berkeleys-october-crowdfunding-campaign/

 

$15,543

24%

 

Good day to help birthday boy help us by giving a donation.
I really enjoy his evisceration of self serving dressed as science

 

$16,323 - 25% of target.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513

 

Done.

Thanks for all you've done to date @dave30th.

 

$24,177 - 37% of total.

18 day left.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513

 

Done.
Thanks, Dave, for all your work debunking unconscionable amounts of dangerous nonsense.

$27,202 - 42% of total
16 days left

 

Seems a bit stuck at the moment ...



Another payday before the deadline, hopefully true for some others too.

 

That's ok--it always stalls for a while mid-way through and at different points. I've trained myself not to fret about the ups and downs.

 

Please support David's crowdfunding. Thank you.

And a huge thank you to you, David!!

$35,276

55% of total

11 days left

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513

 

$42,090

65% Raised toward our $64,000 Goal

8 DAYS LEFT

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513

 

Dont have any spare money
but shared where I can .
fb groups and twitter.
thank you Dave

 

Done!

 

Ouuu that's good and impressive! I fret. Was fretting big time yesterday then in the last 24 hours the numbers went up a lot, so thankful. You're worth many times this!

Thank you everyone that can and do donate, the small ones add up and I know are a lot for many of us, thank you. And the big ones thank you so much too! And thank you @Andy for asking as a birthday gift or a thank you to you for all your work to contribute to this fundraiser and/or Graham's.

$57,344
89% Raised toward our $64,000 Goal
482 Donors

6 DAYS LEFT

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27513