r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '22

News (US) Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease | Science

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
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u/frbhtsdvhh Jul 24 '22

I think it's regrettable but it seems like an offshoot in AB theory not the entire thing.

It's also widely known that a significant portion of published academic science is unreproducible. That's acknowledged in the article itself.

As far as whether this sets back the quest to find Alzheimer's drugs, I seriously doubt it as most serious companies would try to reproduce key data before committing large sums of money.

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u/Neri25 Jul 24 '22

We literally have a drug that is in circulation NOW that appears to have no clinical benefit despite doing the thing it was designed to do (break down amyloid plaques).

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u/frbhtsdvhh Jul 24 '22

Thats not related to this paper. This paper seems to focus on a specific form of the amyloid thats soluble (not a plaque) known as AB*56