The Ameloid Hypothesis About Asheimers Disease

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Julie knew that there's no cure for alheimers disease. But she was also a librarian who teaches people how to read and parse information about science. The data behind the most influential theory of what causes outside this disease may have been manipulated. Taxpayer money over the past 16 years may have been for nothing.

This past July, a bombshell report in Science magazine suggested that a key Alzheimer’s study might have contained manipulated evidence. What does this mean for over a decade's worth of research? And where does the field go from here?

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