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=== Research funding controversies === Action for ME had previously announced research funding for [[Esther Crawley]]<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.actionforme.org.uk/resources/questions-and-answers/ | title = Questions and answers | last = Action for ME | first = | author-link = Action for ME | website = Action for ME | access-date = 2019-08-31}}</ref> until alternative funding from elsewhere replaced AfME funding.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/%E2%80%8Bpaediatric-me-research-study-update-new-funding-found/ | title = Paediatric M. E. research study: alternative funding | last = Action for ME | first = | author-link = Action for ME | website = Action for ME | access-date = 2019-08-31 | date = | author-link = |archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref> AfME continued to fund the research of [[Peter White]], principal investigator in the [[PACE trial]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.actionforme.org.uk/resources/questions-and-answers/what-is-the-neurophysiology-of-pain-in-me-study-about/ | title = What is the neurophysiology of pain in ME study about? | last = Action for ME | first = | author-link = Action for ME | website = Action for ME | access-date = 2019-08-31}} </ref> AfME had close links with the insurance industry and psychiatrists who work with the insurance industry and the Department for Work and Pensions. AfME's former chairman, [[Alan Cook]], was previously a chairman of an insurance company. [[Michael Sharpe]] has said "one of the major patient charities (Action for ME) is aligning itself with a more evidence-based approach" in the [[Unum Provident]] report of 2002.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20061009051749/http://www.unumprovident.co.uk/Home/AccessiblePDF/CMOReport2002.htm#1 | title = UnumProvident - CMOReport2002 | date = 2006-10-09 | website = web.archive.org | access-date = 2019-08-19}}</ref>
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