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3. I have worked with a scientific team addressing this disease as...
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 08:20 AM
Oct 16

...an inflammatory syndrome, certainly related to the described mechanism.

This said the history of Alzheimer's treatments and theory are littered with false starts and even fraud, the famous Lesne case being the most famous, again involving mice, albeit with doctoring images of Western blots.

This is not to say this work is suspect; it may be very good, even a "breakthrough," to use that oft abused word, but it will need to be shown to be replicable in many labs to confirm the finding.

As science in this country is now subject to willful vandalism by ignoramuses, the prospect does not look promising.

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