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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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