Posted on 01/28/2025 10:57:25 AM PST by ransomnote
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The disease afflicts nearly seven million Americans, about one in every nine people over the age of 65, making it a leading cause of death among older adults.
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Over the past 25 years, Alzheimer’s research has suffered a litany of ostensible fraud and other misconduct by world-famous researchers and obscure scientists alike, all trying to ascend in a brutally competitive field. During years of investigative reporting, I’ve uncovered many such cases, including several detailed for the first time in my forthcoming book.
Take for example the revered neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah, whose groundbreaking research has shaped the development of treatments for memory loss and Parkinson’s disease, and who in 2016 was entrusted to lead the National Institute on Aging’s expanded effort to tackle Alzheimer’s. With roughly 800 papers to his name, many of them considered highly influential, Dr. Masliah seemed a natural choice to steer the project, with billions in new funding. He hailed the moment as the dawning of “the golden era of Alzheimer’s disease research.”
Last September in Science magazine, I described evidence that for decades Dr. Masliah’s research had included improperly manipulated photos of brain tissue and other technical images — a clear sign of fraud. Many of his studies contained apparently falsified western blots — scientific images that show the presence of proteins in a blood or tissue sample. Some of the same images seem to have been used repeatedly, falsely represented as original, in different papers throughout the years. (When I reached out to Dr. Masliah for the story, he declined to respond.)
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“Science” isn’t science any more. It’s a business and your tax dollars are paying for a big chunk of it. And the end product is usually just lies.
Alzheimer’s research is very difficult, and very important.
It MUST be free from fraud, even if scientists have to admit that they are not yet making headway in their research!
(By the way, I am a PhD biological scientist.)
Journalist Charles Piller’s publications in “Science”:
https://www.science.org/content/author/charles-piller
In the early 1970's, my mother was diagnosed with pre-senile dementia, which later became Alzheimer's. She was 46. Her mental health gradually declined for many years later. She passed at age 60, which I think was unusual. Her neurologist theorized that it could be hereditary, but recent studies say it doesn't look hereditary.
fraud in the pursuit of medical science... imagine that
I asked him a question about the brain...can't recall what it was that I asked...and he replied that "scientists know more about the surface of the moon than they know about the human brain".His exact words.
So anything that physicians are saying about Alzheimer's is probably just guesswork at this point.
See Post #7
Good post.
Terence McKenna had an excellent comment on this subject many years ago—something to the effect of...
If pre 1800 scientists were studying radios they would take them apart to look for the talking men inside...
:-)
not surprising anymore as big health/science/academe is 90% racket, but heartbreaking for many of us who care daily for a dementia patient.
Uh oh.
God bless. Praying for the both of you.
thank you flora.
The fallacy of the appointments of ALL “official” experts.
Government should have zero government “official” “experts”.
Instead it should want, and be required, to listen to multiple outside independent experts, collect their views and arguments, and try to make some consensus worthy of shaping policy. But even doing that should include the caveat that the policy is not perfect and time, further evidence and experience may determine the policy is wrong.
I do know that stress blocks the ability to memorize.
Perhaps transplanting organs could rule out non-brain causation.
“Science” isn’t science any more. It’s a business and your tax dollars are paying for a big chunk of it. And the end product is usually just lies.”
And there you have it, you can end the thread.
hmmm. Wonder if they will be investigated since President Trump (love typing that) has halted NIH travel, meetings, and research funding. Guess I’ll put this up at TruthSocial. heh
Truer words have never been written.
One theory I heard recently is related to blood sugar levels. The theory is that blood sugar levels making wide swings in concentration is bad for the brain . Keep it up and you get Alzheimer’s.
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