Did Fraud Lead Us to an Alzheimer's Breakthrough? @ACSReactions

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In 2022, news broke that a critical, groundbreaking Alzheimer's research paper had allegedly been a fraud, and the media began to speculate how many billions of dollars and thousands of hours of scientists’ time had been wasted.

But then the news articles stopped and research continued and now, there are two potentially helpful Alzheimer's disease drugs on the market. Since then, the evidence for fraud in that paper has piled up, but so has evidence for protein buildup in the brain causing Alzheimers. So did fabricated scientific results accidentally set us on the right path towards a breakthrough?

#alzheimersresearch
#scientificfraud
#amyloidbeta

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