Dr David Tuller: The Michael Sharpe Crowdfunding Effect

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Trial By Error: The Michael Sharpe Crowdfunding Effect

Leave a Comment / By David Tuller / 26 May 2024
By David Tuller, DrPH

*This is a crowdfunding month for Trial By Error. Donations (tax-deductible to US tax-payers) go to the University of Calinfornia, Berkeley, to support the project. The link to the crowdfunding campaign is here: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302

In the past, Professor Michael Sharpe, one of the lead PACE investigators, has intervened in my Berkeley crowdfunding and given my efforts a significant–although presumably unintended–boost. In the spring of 2018, I spent six weeks traveling around Australia, a trip that overlapped with that April’s crowdfunding campaign. During the campaign, Jennie Spotila endorsed it with a lovely post on her blog Occupy M.E., which included the link.
After Jennie tweeted it out, Professor Sharpe decided to retweet it and whine about the troubles I was causing with the following retort: “This is what researchers who are studying aspects of CFS/ME that activists don’t want studied are up against.” This was a spectacularly stupid move, since he’d in effect further disseminated the crowdfunding link. People began tweeting their thanks to Professor Sharpe for reminding them to donate. Let’s just say his efforts to criticize my efforts had some unexpected side benefits.

 

[Mary]

I remember when this happened - it was great! Where's Michael Sharpe when you need him???