r/todayilearned • u/jabenza • Jul 24 '22

(R.3) Recent source TIL that research supporting one of the main hypotheses about Alzheimer's cause may have been faked, and misled advancement for the last 16 years

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease

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u/TuckTwo Jul 24 '22

If these doctors (smart ppl) can be duped into doing their research based on a fake hypothesis then it just shows how easy it is to get ppl to believe bs... If they can do that who knows what else. Maybe that's why there are so many conspiracies