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The data behind the most influential theory of what causes Alzheimer's disease may have been manipulated. If that turns out to be true, it means about a billion dollars in US taxpayer money used for Alzheimer's research over the past 16 years may have been for nothing. How will Alzheimer's research recover from a decade and a half long while goose chase and lost opportunity to find effective treatments?

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupted business in the US, the government sent billions of dollars to people and businesses that were affected. That led to an epidemic of financial scams.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, fact-checked by Serena Solin and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted.

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