Re:Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid t...
by ghastmaster on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:48PM
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> NIH spent about $1.6 billion on projects that mention amyloids in this fiscal year, about half its overall Alzheimer’s funding
The funding for one year from this one agency amounting to 1.6 billion dollars is a stunning.
If what you say is true, promoters of the validity of the NIH should be a push for statutory changes that mandate NIH commit a percentage of the overall budget to confirming significant past research.
Re:Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid t...
by jmcgough on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:28PM
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I think part of the challenge is no one wants to throw their hands up in the air and abandon amyloid after so many years and dollars spent on it. Instead, they say "well we just weren't doing an early enough intervention", which is how Aducanumab was forced through with weak evidence of effectiveness.
The big question is what do we do now? There's Tau, but that hasn't been a slam dunk either.
The problem is the pressure to get funding by being productive. Negative results are wildly harder to get funded. Less productive labs are at a disadvantage for grants. Which means, like any metric upon which people's salaries rest, people are tempted to game it.