How Does Your Hypotheses Work?

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Alsheimer talks to a nerobiologist named ruth isaki. She was working on one of the other alsheimer's hypotheses, the virus infection. And she said she would submit all these papers, and she'd get rejection after rejection after rejection. So what does that side lining actually look like?

For decades, Alzheimer’s researchers have been stubbornly pursuing a single theory, but they’re starting to wonder: is this narrow focus the reason we still don’t have a cure?

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