BAD SCIENCE SETS ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH BACK GENERATIONS
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 5 December 2022
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| 0:00.0 | This is one of the biggest stories that we really researched in a while. |
| 0:05.0 | And this had to do with Alzheimer's. |
| 0:07.0 | And there has been some just massive potential research fraud. |
| 0:12.0 | And it has shaken up the entire industry, when I say industry, the pharmaceutical industry, |
| 0:17.0 | and also the researchers and the scientists that have been involved in it for decades. |
| 0:21.0 | And what are we talking about here? |
| 0:23.0 | Science.org, so website, did an independent investigation into these allegations. |
| 0:29.0 | This is the article. |
| 0:30.0 | This article lays out the entire story very detailed. |
| 0:33.0 | Blots on a field. |
| 0:34.0 | A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer's articles threatening a reigning theory of the disease. |
| 0:41.0 | So this is a guy here. |
| 0:42.0 | His name is Matthew S. Scrog. |
| 0:44.0 | And he's a assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center PhD. |
| 0:51.0 | He took this research by a couple of other neuroscientists that were petitioning the FDA to stop a drug that they were going to approve an Alzheimer's drug. |
| 1:03.0 | They were going to prove that targets this this plaque for Alzheimer's. |
| 1:06.0 | And they hired this guy because they said, look, I think they, we think there's fraudulent. |
| 1:12.0 | There's fraud in this research. |
| 1:13.0 | We're going to hire you. |
| 1:14.0 | I want you to go through here and look, look at these images to see what you can find. |
| 1:18.0 | This guy did this. I mean, he was paid for it, but he did this because he really didn't want the people in the trials to enter these trials, thinking that they may get something out of it when there was really no chance if it was a fraudulent trial of any improvement whatsoever. |
| 1:31.0 | So really someone after own, own heart here at ICANN. |
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