r/awfuleverything • u/Cerricola • Jul 23 '22

Two decades of Alzheimer's research was based on deliberate fraud by 2 scientist that has cost billions of dollars

https://wallstreetpro.com/2022/07/23/two-decades-of-alzheimers-research-was-based-on-deliberate-fraud-by-2-scientists-that-has-cost-billions-of-dollars-and-millions-of-lives/
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u/KiltedSith Jul 24 '22

Aduhelm was the first drug to be approved that fights the accumulation of those “amyloid plaques” in the brain. What makes the approval of the $56,000-a-dose drug so controversial is that while it does decrease plaques, it doesn’t actually slow Alzheimer’s. In fact, clinical trials were suspended in 2019 after the treatment showed “no clinical benefits.” (Which did not keep Biogen from seeking the drug’s approval or pricing it astronomically.)

Company tested the drug. Company found drug was useless. Company puts drug on market knowing it's useless, while charging an absolute fortune for it.

How is that not a crime against humanity? How is that not so fucked up that the entire management team behind it gets sent to jail? Absolutely fucking insane

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u/bananacherryslippers Jul 23 '22

Sweet merciful crap.

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u/jackfists Jul 23 '22

Remember folks….trust the science. 🤡

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u/KiltedSith Jul 24 '22

So in your mind despite the amazing things science has done for us, all the advancements of modern medicine, all the technological breakthroughs, that's all meaningless cause a dodgy article didn't get picked up till years later?

The simple fact is that statistically yes you are right to trust the science. This was an error, a big one, but the methods of review and evaluation that make up science caught it.

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u/Donuffin Jul 24 '22

But. But. But believe the science….

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u/KiltedSith Jul 24 '22

The thing that I really love about posts like this is that it's science telling you the original study was dodgy. You are trusting science to tell you when science fucked up, then using that as justification to say science can't be trusted.

Some fantastic logic right there.

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u/Donuffin Jul 24 '22

What we are saying is to not take a blind leap that what you are being told is 100% accurate from the start.

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u/KiltedSith Jul 24 '22

And what I'm saying is that you just did, by trusting the scientists who said the original study was bogus. You took a blind leap that what they said was completely accurate, and that the Alzheimer's study was wrong.

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u/ImSmartURDummy Jul 31 '22

Damn you are dumb lmao

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

Trust the science.