Weʼre raising £35,000 to Continue Vital ME Research, Keith Geraghty, 2021

Tom Kindlon said:
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The UK ME Association did give him £20,000 previously.
The Irish ME/CFS Association is a lot smaller but gave him €3000 in 2020.
The members of the Irish ME/CFS Association are now voting on how they would like €35,000 from our research fund be spent and he is one of the options (it is not an all or nothing thing).

For what it's worth, every day for the last month or so I have retweeted a message for people encourage people to donate and/or share it. Of course, only some people on Twitter.
I did also share it on Facebook, Instagram and elsewhere.
It would be great if more people could share it around.
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Well done thanks Tom and everyone.

Sounds like its just me being ignorant then, I guess I should be apologising.

We really do need this kind of work to be done, it makes a big difference to have a well positioned academic perspective available to present to media and government. His work strikes me as reminiscent of Prof Leonard Jason's in the measured rational tone questioning the assumptions of the BPS lobby.

In the absence of govt funding its down to us but I wonder what can be done to get him more secure funding? Is there anything we can do to get him and Dr David Tuller tenured like Prof Leonard Jason?

It would be somewhat galling to sit and watch the BPS lobby hoover up all the grant money again.
 
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boolybooly said:
Is there anything we can do to get him and Dr David Tuller tenured like Prof Leonard Jason?
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Wouldn't it be nice if tenure could be obtained like that? In the US, some faculty are hired into tenure-track positions that are funded by the university. Those positions are limited. Most faculty are outside faculty--linked to a university project that is funded from grants, gifts, and other non-university moneys. They don't have the protection or the responsibilities (serving on committees, etc) of tenured positions. I don't know how it works in UK.
 
I've just donated to Dr Keith Geraghty's appeal, which ends at the end of the month.

Getting papers into peer-reviewed journals, as Keith has done, is very important for moving the field forward, but is not easy, particularly with some biopsychosocial peer reviewers.

Keith also does important peer review work himself, which is unpaid and few people would get to hear much about.

My donation was unfortunately only small. I do have a monthly standing order for the Irish ME/CFS Association research fund. It gave him €3000 previously and the members are currently voting on how much he should get out of a pot of €35,000 (he knows about this vote, and it is separate to this appeal).
 
Tweet from Keith Geraghty
"Thanks to the amazing donations received I've been able to turn my attention to writing up papers that need to be published. One is on how CBT trials are open to bias and manipulation & another is on how "good evidence" isn't always that good! Crowdfunding closes in 4 days time."
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Now at 62%, £15,739 raised, £25,000 target.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/keithgeraghty
 
I didn't realise Keith's crowdfunding was about to close. Is there a closing date in any of the information?
Edit: I'll add it to this week's news. Apologies to Keith for leaving it out this week and only highlighting David Tuller's appeal. I was going to go back to including Keith's appeal next week.
 
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Tom Kindlon said:
Getting papers into peer-reviewed journals, as Keith has done, is very important for moving the field forward, but is not easy, particularly with some biopsychosocial peer reviewers.

Keith also does important peer review work himself, which is unpaid and few people would get to hear much about.
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Didn't know Keith was also doing peer review on top of writing papers himself.
Have donated to both his and Dave's appeals.
 
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