*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: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/projec...
Earlier today I spoke with George Monbiot, a British investigative reporter and political activist who has been a columnist for The Guardian for almost three decades. He and I have been in occasional communication in recent years over an issue of mutual interest-the scandalous mistreatment of patients suffering from the devastating illness (or cluster of illnesses) known as ME/CFS and, more recently, from Long Covid.
For years, I have been hoping that a prominent British journalist would take on the charlatans who foisted the fraudulent PACE trial upon an unsuspecting public. Last month, Monbiot gratified that desire with a scathing column that correctly characterized the treatment of ME/CFS patients as a “national scandal.” Needless to say, the column was widely read and received extensive praise from the ME/CFS patient and advocacy communities.
17 апр 2024
