I know 2 people including my own mother who died of Alzheimer's and one who has it right now. Who knows where would we be right now if we didn't go on the wrong track with this fraudulent paper? Things like this is why trust in scientists are at an all-time low. There's corruption at every single layer of our society and I don't know what we can do to get honor and honesty back as top moral goals for citizens.
This amyloid theory has been completely debunked at this point but has wasted almost two decades of progress because of it. It's so infuriating, but I don't see this stopping because there's no accountability.
> this is why trust in scientists are at an all-time low
People needs to stop making excuses to avoid science, use their brain cells and grow some critic sense. When you feel afraid of science, stop and think that the other option is worse.
So far, it appears to be a degenerative process with manifold causes still to be elucidated. Perhaps in ~50 years, there will be a wider corpus of knowledge and treatments to attack more of them.
Of note: Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease inverse relationship: an age-associated diverging derailment of shared pathways Molecular Psychiatry vol. 26, pp. 280–295 (2021)
Everyone in power is in on it for revenue maximization. Treating someone at an early stage is never the goal; making money and winning awards is the goal. The FDA is 100% in on it.
> Treating someone at an early stage is never the goal
This claim is just an opinion. I bet that if we check the real statistics there are lots of cases that show exactly the opposite behavior.
> making money and winning awards is the goal
We should remind that making money and winning awards are perfectly legit goals, as long as the work is done honestly.
Working with Alzheimer patients rank probably among some of the most emotionally hardest and more depressive works that I could imagine. We should stop treating scientists as missionary figures that were born to save all of us for free.
Those who don't even see the problem are already corrupted. Early stage treatments at scale can be very possible with cheap preventative bloodwork and inexpensive small molecules. Instead, we have no diagnostics until it's already too late, and then we have 50K/year "treatments" that don't even work. The ones you referred to are not scientists; they're scientific mercenaries.
Just because they're billionaires does not mean that they're smart enough to improve the human condition, even their own. They're billionaires because they are good at making money, often by exploiting the environment and/or humans. It doesn't imply that they know how to spend it well even to save themselves in the future.
This amyloid theory has been completely debunked at this point but has wasted almost two decades of progress because of it. It's so infuriating, but I don't see this stopping because there's no accountability.