Charles piller is an investigative reporter at science magazine, and he spent many months investigating the bombshell piece that came out in juy. Charles says one of the most important moments in this story starts around two thousand six when alshemer's research was kind of at a cross roads. At this point, people had already spent over a decade working really hard on the ameloid hypothesis. They had been trying to find ways to clear the sticky, solid, amaloid bata placs out of people's brains. And what they found was that, in drug after drug trial after trial, these techniques were not helping patients. So there was growing scepticism in the world of research associated