The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science

“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.)

one in every nine people over the age of 65, making it a leading cause of death among older adults.

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 worked for the neuropathologist at what many in the medical field consider to be the best hospital in the world.Yes,in Boston (as Charles Emerson Winchester would say).

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.

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.

God bless. Praying for the both of you.