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

Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by mirimir on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:02PM (#21916182)

How about "The beta-amyloid paradigm thwarted progress toward an Alzheimer’s cure"?

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by hitekker on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:14PM (#21917888)

I disagree. The article articulates a political problem, not an error in reasoning.

These few scientists did not just choose a stable approach that later turned out to be wrong: they doubled-down, tripled-down on a shakey guess for decades and suppressed voices to the contrary. The seemingly credentialed, respected, and authoritative experts of Alzheimer's sabotaged the science around a hot-button problem for their own personal gain, while society suffered the consequences.

This antipattern can be seen as a kind of "academic rent-seeking" or "false-expertise". It can also be called "collusion" given that an organized group of people semi-intentionally marginalized their opposition at the outset, and at great cost to the broader public.

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by mirimir on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:23PM (#21918234)

That's why I suggested "paradigm". Because that includes all the political stuff. Not just a widely accepted hypothesis.

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Re:How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure by dang on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:21PM (#21916819)

Ok, we'll use something like that. Thanks!

Edit: I've changed it back because readers are divided on this.

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