Posted on 06/09/2024 7:17:58 AM PDT by bitt
It may or may not be the most significant retraction of a scientific paper ever, but it certainly is in the ballpark.
The paper helped create and sustain the theory that amyloid protein buildups caused the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and was one of a number of apparently fraudulent papers written by Sylvain Lesné, a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
All the paper's authors agreed to retract, save Lesné, who has been under investigation for manipulating data.
"Authors of a landmark Alzheimer’s disease research paper published in Nature in 2006 have agreed to retract the study in response to allegations of image manipulation. University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities neuroscientist Karen Ashe, the paper’s senior author, acknowledged in a post on the journal discussion site PubPeer that the paper contains doctored images. The study has been cited nearly 2500 times, and would be the most cited paper ever to be retracted, according to Retraction Watch data.
“Although I had no knowledge of any image manipulations in the published paper until it was brought to my attention two years ago,” Ashe wrote on PubPeer, “it is clear that several of the figures in Lesné et al. (2006) have been manipulated … for which I as the senior and corresponding author take ultimate responsibility.”
After initially arguing the paper’s problems could be addressed with a correction, Ashe said in another post last week that all of the authors had agreed to a retraction—with the exception of its first author, UMN neuro-
scientist Sylvain Lesné, a protégé of Ashe’s who was the focus of a 2022 investigation by Science. A Nature spokesperson would not comment on the journal’s plans."
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Nearly 20 years of faulty medical protocols built of #FakeScience. Didn’t practitioners realize their treatment regimens were ineffective, and absolutely no one was getting better?
Source please?
Mom has Alzheimer's and has never been on Statins.
DDT was banned in the 70s. There were some limitations on its usage in the late 50s and 60s but no outright ban till later. The gov't was still using it until 1970.
This is how science is supposed to work! Someone has an idea, presents what info they can generate to support it, and others test it out. If they confirm the data presented, it supports the conclusions. If not, they try to get more data to prove or disprove it.
Back when Science was new, they wrote letters to one another to discuss it, and joined groups to discuss and test their results. Took year and years to gather and evaluate the data. We can share it faster, but it still takes time and money and effort to confirm or deny.
Of course, you’re not supposed to fake or manipulate the data, either.
” Source please? Mom has Alzheimer’s and has never been on Statins.”
Lots of YouTube videos on it, some quite scientific. As to your mom, sorry to here, but Alzheimer’s has been around long before statins and will be around after. It’s the recent explosion in cases that I’m referring to.
That is very well-said and I agree.
“… the cause of Polio was DDT/pesticides…”
I then told them about the professor who ate a pound of DDT to show it was harmless to humans. “What happened to him?” they’d ask. “He died. Twenty years later while climbing a mountain in his 80s.”
That's not exactly proven either. One point of data: My grandmother never received statins, and yet spent 7 years in a nursing home with what they were calling senile dementia at the time. She passed in 1996, at age 83. She use to eat an onion dipped in honey every day. The dementia seems to have started when she stopped eating those onions with honey. I believe that is a significant datum, but have no real way to test it. Though I try to consume a bunch of vitamin C every day. Onions have more C than oranges. And they're cheaper, too. Even with today's elevated prices.
Maready’s reference was to the states such as MA where it was banned earlier that had an outbreak of Polio. Worth reading his book. Pretty sure, at any rate, that Polio began trending down before the first vax.
Not in certain states. Maready mentions MA. Read his book.
But where did that come from?
Dementia has been around a lot longer than statins have (remember Rita Hayworth?), but I sure believe statins have been the cause of a huge number of misdiagnoses. I know from first-hand experience when I couldn’t utter words, couldn’t write them down. I was fortunate to connect the timing of my problems to when the doctor put me on statins. I stopped taking them and was back to normal in a week. What happens is the myelin sheath...the insulation around the brain’s wiring...is made up of cholesterol which the statins destroy in some people. Brain signals get screwed up. I have often wondered if the misdiagnosis is a true mistake, or done on purpose to insure an on-going income for the doctor and/or the drug companies.
I was one of those kids who got it on a sugar cube in the mid-50s.
In my sphere, I AM the ‘black sheep’:
I read labels, I ask questions, I don’t consume certain foods - ahem - and I’m the ONLY person I know who consumes >95% of meals ‘made at home’. I am also the only person I know personally who has recovered health - after 30+ years of abject stupidity - rather than declined. It’s a constant battle which I frequently touch upon here.
Preaching to the choir, for them it’s a numbers game - refer to Edward Bernays for detail - and, ironically, it’s partly depicted in this post from earlier:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4243192/posts
https://rumble.com/v50jq2r-joe-biden-steals-a-candid-camera-skit.html
I knew a woman who grew up in Ulster County, New York in the 1950s. There are many apple orchards in the area surrounding her neighborhood which were treated with various pesticides. Her mother died of Parkinson’s, as she did, as her younger brother did, and as quite a few of her high school friends have. I am not aware of any studies that connect this apparent cluster to the pesticides, but I cannot put it down to mere coincidence.
Thank you.
It makes sense that Statins could be a contributing factor, but not the sole cause.
Perhaps people who would ‘age into’ and develop Alzheimer’s in their mid 90s are accelerated to developing it in their mid 70s?
This is a case of science putting a previous claim to the test. In other words standard practice for the last few hundred years.
There were major polio outbreaks in the early 1900s which is when FDR caught it. DDT wasn’t in use as an insecticide until the 1940s.
remember kiddies: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Anthony Fauci says so!
Bottom line....
“This is an age of scientific scandals. Science is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and one that gets far too little scrutiny. That has to change.”
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