i assume it's not just ruth who's being sidelined, right? I imagine, you know, you named a couple of hypotheses here, from virus how to others. Could we have even other hypotheses if we hadn't been so singularly focused on the amelide hypothesis? Yes, absolutely. Even if that makes science really, really messy and difficult to navigate, that's what we need.
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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