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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by DarkmSparks on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:05AM (#21913076)
Really interesting observation, fascinating to see it described as "emergent behaviour". WMDs were known to be fake from the start though, they were just stealing Iraqi oil, and David Kelly lost his life trying to expose it - could you suggest a better example?

Article is great to, came to post something along the lines of "no it wasn't a conspiracy", but the article summerises exactly what happened under the picture - "Amyloid plaques have long been the suspected cause of cognitive decline experienced by Alzheimer’s patients. Drug companies have spent billions of dollars creating amyloid-targeting drugs, yet they’ve all failed"

->They went "all in" on bad science.

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by amw on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:28PM (#21915038)
> They went "all in" on bad science.

They went "all in" on science, that happens with hindsight to maybe not have been an accurate model for reality. Nobody can know that a particular explanation is bad without actually doing the science first, no matter what post facto explanations we can come up with after we realize we've been chasing a unicorn.

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by DarkmSparks on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:04PM (#21917080)
"bad science" because it was proven wrong after spending hundreds of billions of dollars.

no particular judgement, but saying "mistakes were made" would be something of an understatement.

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by efa on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:08PM (#21916235)
I'm sure what were fake. The US GAVE Saddam WMDs during the war with Iran (maybe you don't consider these WMDs). No one argues that he didn't use mustard gas on the Kurds.
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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by DarkmSparks on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:00PM (#21917062)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Dossier
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