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PainScience.com has never been a non-profit website, but it has always been an idealistic, low-profit website, a small business that earns me just enough to take care of my family. The site is entirely reader-supported by book sales, memberships, and donations (and never any ads, ever, because modern Internet advertising is super gross).

If you value this resource, please consider a membership — you’ll support a fine source of high quality health science journalism, keeping it ad-free and independent… and you’ll get extra content for your money.

You can be a member and get the main membership benefit — premium newsletter posts — for as little as USD $3/per month, and you can get all the standard membership perks for $5/month.

~ Paul Ingraham, PainScience publisher
Vancouver, Canada

Buy Good, Better or Best PainSci Membership…

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Membership plans compared…
GOOD $3 Free emails (0–2/week) + premium emails (1/month)
BETTER $5 All emails + podcast + archives + members-only sections + RSS feed
AWESOME $10 All of the above + occasional special benefits

All the benefits of membership

Is membership for patients or professionals? Both!

The editorial policy of PainScience.com is to only publish content that can be easily understood and enjoyed by anyone: any kind of professional, or any keen patient. Obviously some content skews a little more one way or the other, but basically it’s all for everyone — and pros always have the option of reading further, or delving into more footnotes.

I could easily justify a more expensive membership for pros, and I might create a pro tier someday. But for now the price is set deliberately at a level that is in the middle: less than I could ask from pros, and maybe a touch high for patients, but just fine for my favourite kind of readers in either category.

More membership benefits coming, er, “soon”

The membership program is still relatively new, and I have added many features to membership since it launched in mid-2021… but near in mind that this is a small business, and nothing happens fast. I never stop! But I am not fast. As I chip away at it, here are some more benefits I am considering. Just ideas, but at least a couple of them are almost certain to happen eventually…

What is that pricey “awesome” membership all about? It’s about being a damned saint, that’s what!

You can pay double the price of the middle-tier to get … absolutely nothing in particular. I am making exactly zero promises about what I will do for my top-tier members. There will surely be something, eventually, but I will not be busting a gut to feel to “earn” the extra few bucks.

Clearly I have missed my calling in sales.

Seriously, I cannot work any harder than I already am, so I cannot really offer more than I’m already offering without breaking something. What I need is to be paid better for what I’m already doing, and so I offer that option to people who are happy to pay more for essentially the same thing. Want to buy me a modest breakfast once per month, rather than just coffee and a muffin, without expecting more in return? That top tier is there for you!

Yes, people really do choose this tier. I have been amazed and gratified to see the “awesome” plan get some real traction. ❤️

My daring “no membership refunds” policy 🙂

While I do offer refunds for books (and always have), I do not offer membership refunds. Membership is supportive patronage with good perks, not a satisfaction-guaranteed “product.” Please vote with your dollars for good science journalism with conviction! If the content turns out not to be a good fit for you, please just cancel and consider your money well-spent on a good cause.

Member post archives

This is a list of the members-only posts I’ve published since 2021. Better and Best members have access to all of these, any time, but Good members only get new ones by email as they are published. However, Good members are welcome to claim one freebie: just send me a note to say hi 👋🏻 and let me know which one, and I’ll reply with a link that will give you access to it.

Members areas (visible to eligible members when logged in)

The blog/newsletter is only a small portion of PainScience.com: there is also the large main library of featured articles, many of which are mighty (often many thousands of words). And many of those articles have sections set aside for Better and Best members. If you encounter them when you’re not logged in, you can unlock on the spot with just your email address (without even a confirmation step; you do need to confirm to unlock everything everywhere all at once, but your email will always insta-unlock the current page).

All articles with significant members-only areas are listed below. Articles with bonus content are also highlighted in the main index pages. The selection slowly evolves.

PainSci Member Login » Submit your email to unlock member content. If you can’t remember/access your registration email, please contact me. ~ Paul Ingraham, PainSci Publisher