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Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig respond to the Chilli ME Challenge on July 1st

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Bob said:
How about one or more of these?
https://chillimechallenge.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/please-take-the-chillimechallenge/
https://chillimechallenge.wordpress.com/donate-here/
http://phoenixrising.me/archives/26828
http://www.cii.columbia.edu/blog.aspx?cid=ehYQ9V
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I'm doing something else at the moment, otherwise I'd like to help with this - but I think it would be great if someone could post on his blog a brief explanation of what the challenge is (i.e. you nominate someone, etc. etc.) and explain that the money is going to CII or IiME and give them some links.

We shouldn't expect people to plough through too many words or links on this - we need to make it easy!
 
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Sushi said:
Yes, a very big thanks! But this is a nail-biting clip--what happened next? Where did he run to? Is he okay?
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lol, yes, it got quite dramatic, just for a moment, when he bit into the chilli and exclaimed: "stop the camera!" We definitely need to know more about what happened next! I wonder if perhaps he's filming a movie length feature: The Aftermath!
 
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Lipkin & Hornig's chili ME challenge has a brief write-up in the journal Nature Medicine
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http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/nm0815-834

834VOLUME 21
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NUMBER 8
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AUGUST 2015 NATURE MEDICINE
NEWS IN BRIEF
Biomedical briefing
Researchers at the Center for Infection and
Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman
School of Public Health took a unique approach
to raising money for research: they used a
webcast to broadcast their attempt at eating
chili peppers, in exchange for donated funds.
On 7 July, Mady Hornig and Ian Lipkin (pictured
above), principal investigators of a project
to uncover the microbiome’s role in myalgic
encephalomyelitis (ME)—also known as chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS)—took the ‘Chili ME
Challenge’, a phenomenon that is being used
as a crowdfunding strategy in the US and
other countries, such as Australia and Ireland.
CFS has no effective treatments and the
mechanisms behind the disease are still mostly
unknown. The funds from the challenge will
help to find treatments and better understand
the condition. More than $500,000 has been
raised on behalf of the Chili ME Challenge. “It
has been very productive, and it has allowed
us to initiate work that would otherwise take
at least months to years to find support to
pursue,” Lipkin says
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