Most Significant Scientific Retraction Ever? ( Alzheimer's Disease)

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/06/07/most-significant-scientific-retraction-ever-n3789789 ^ | 6/8/2024 | david strom

[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."

[Rockingham]

Cholesterol was made a villain as part of a misguided attack on natural fats in the American diet as the cause of heart disease. As a substitute for the taste and savor conveyed by fats, the federal government then accommodated increases in sugar. And to make processed foods more stable and with a longer shelf life, transfats were give a pass as well. The result was higher cholesterol and undiminished rates of heart disease even as natural fats were reduced.

Of course, the transfats and increased sugar and carbohydrates encouraged by federal policy make for higher cholesterol. Federal policy though has been resistant to change -- except to promote statins, with mixed effects. On the whole, statins tend to be over prescribed. They can have useful effects in reducing stroke risk, but improvement to the American diet would be cheaper and of wider benefit.

[Karoo]

SOme doctors say Alzheimers is Diabetes Type 3

[devere]

Read this book and you may change your opinion: https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981045

[Disestablishmentarian]

There is also a very good, controversial book, “The River,”

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Wonderful book. AIDS was a huge medical "Accident" which will probably claim about 100 million deaths worldwide when all is said and done.

[Hiddigeigei]

I was a research scientist for much of my adult working life. It grieves me what people like Fauci and Mann and others have done to otherwise honorable professions.

[LS]

Officially banned. States began pressuring farmers not to use it much earlier. “Banned” probably wasn’t a good word to employ: DDT had “fallen out of use” in many key areas, particularly MA.

[LS]

And what would the replies on RFK, Jr.’s book on Dr. Fallacy have looked like?

Replies mean nothing, especially when one is advancing an unpopular opinion. It is unpopular because it “might” mean that we all were taken in by the polio vax hype. Epoch Times is running a series now calling into question the entire smallpox vax history. I never said I believed it. I said that it is worth considering.

[Vermont Lt]

I was a professional photographer. Manipulating images was something i did most mornings. However, whenever i shot as a photojournalist, manipulating the image (other than cropping) was not allowed. They wanted a “raw” image.

I would think in “science” you would want all of the images to use the same “baseline.” If you want to show A and then B, you really cannot make any adjustments to color or contrast.

I did not read deep enough into the article to find out what they actually did. An educated guess is that they adjusted some of the basic items (brightness, contrast, etc) to make the images “stand out.”

What might not matter to us, would be forbidden in a journal.

[mewzilla]

On a possibly related note, from our neighbors to the north...

Scientist working on mystery N.B. brain condition claimed he was 'cut off' for 'political' reasons Dr. Michael Coulthart was moved off file after team ‘ruled out’ his specialty cause of disease, PHAC says

Now note the timing of the rise in suspected CJD, the disease we're talking about...

...The health ministry in New Brunswick first warned the public about a possible unknown neurological brain disorder in early 2021, after more than 40 people were found to have been suffering from a condition with similar symptoms to CJD...

Early 2021...

And then there's this, a paper from 2023...

Emergence of a New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 26 Cases of the Human Version of Mad-Cow Disease, Days After a COVID-19 Injection