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How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022)
What is the Alzheimer's research scandal? Learn what neuroscientist Matthew Schrag has to say about possible fraudulent Alzheimer's research from a 2006 study.
Since the German physician Alois Alzheimer first began publishing on the disease in the early 1900s, scientists have wanted to know what caused this profound cognitive decline. Based on data from a slew of journal articles, Simufilam was supposed to stabilize the proteins and stop the cascade of damage that led to cognitive decline. The whistleblower, Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician in Tennessee, announced the data from the 2006 Nature article might be fraudulent, and it was time to rethink the amyloid hypothesis.
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