How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure

Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by JackFr on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:59AM (#21914187)

> Funding is a political game and the people who are best at politics tend to be the worst at research (and vice-versa).

That's not necessarily true. There are people who are excellent at both, but I suppose in practice they are relatively rare. The best recognize research as a cooperative human endeavor, and human elements like bias, ego, etc. can never fully be extricated.

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by ClumsyPilot on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:48AM (#21914648)

Not sure why you are being down-voted, most research is done in teams, and the likelihood is that a good team has a person who is good as writing grants applications, and having such a person enables them to maintain a team.

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