[HN Gopher] Alzheimer's scientist indicted for allegedly falsify...
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Alzheimer's scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in
$16M scheme
Author : isaacfrond
Score : 72 points
Date : 2024-07-02 08:21 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| isaacfrond wrote:
| Well, that's about time. Although, I'm pessimistic that the law
| can stem the current tide of research fraud, at least it's
| something.
| eigenvalue wrote:
| Would be ironic if the trial shows that the drug works after all
| this. But that seems incredibly doubtful. This guy should go to
| prison for a long time. That's 1,800 people in a trial who could
| have been taking a non fraudulent drug that has a better chance
| of working.
| matthewdgreen wrote:
| Is there a better and non-fraudulent drug out there? I'm not
| asking to further an argument, I'm asking because I have a
| family member with this disease.
| bionhoward wrote:
| Not a drug but intermittent fasting could help, here are some
| articles on it https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intermitt
| ent+fasting+Al...
| appplication wrote:
| Even if the science isn't fully there yet, this seems well
| into the realm of "almost certainly can't hurt".
| karmajunkie wrote:
| except, well, it kinda might.
|
| https://newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-time-restricted-
| eatin...
| appplication wrote:
| Interesting, I wonder if that's because most people doing
| so were already or formerly overweight, hence the
| fasting.
| improv wrote:
| Relatedly, there is evidence that ketogenic (which are
| fasting mimicking) diets can be helpful:
|
| https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/keto-diet-prevents-
| early....
|
| https://ncats.nih.gov/news-events/news/ketogenic-diet-
| alzhei...
| eigenvalue wrote:
| Yes, this drug from Eli Lilly looks very promising:
|
| https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-
| detail...
|
| https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/another-
| milestone-...
|
| Also, the 40hz therapy stuff looks compelling to me. I made a
| free website that you can use on a phone to try it:
|
| https://alzheimersbuddy.com/
| bsder wrote:
| Sadly, there is not a better drug out there.
|
| At best, maybe, progress gets slowed. A little.
|
| The amyloid hypothesis researchers have done grave damage to
| general society in their intransigence to abandon a position
| that has been proven over and over to not lead to useful
| treatments.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Official Justice release:
| https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/professor-charged-operating-m...
| laborcontract wrote:
| I know in a lot of past submissions here about academic fraud, a
| good chunk of the comments wondered how it wasn't a punishable
| crime.
|
| Well, now we know the answer! I hope we get a lot more of this.
| Given how much of academic funding is provided by the government,
| it's not unrealistic to think that the feds can break the back of
| academic fraud by pursuing more of these cases.
|
| The burden these people cast on society is arguably worse than a
| ponzi schemer. They steal money from taxpayers, the livelihoods
| of researchers, and time from those who can least afford to waste
| it.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| Not giving academics FU money is going to backfire.
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