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Re:The Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer's Science by FollowingTheDao on Sunday February 02, 2025 @05:04PM (#42912309)
The amyloid hypothesis, as described to me by someone working in the field, is not only wrong, but it is harmful to the patients. His research is studying that it is more probable that the plaques are actually protective and do not cause the memory loss and other disease symptoms directly. This idea was pushed aside and ridiculed for years all because of the greed and lies by people like Eliezer Masliah.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2907530/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3233/JAD-2009-1151

https://www.utmb.edu/mdnews/podcast/episode/alzheimer's---co...

Re:The Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer's Science by aardvark92 on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:54PM (#42913648)
Yes! This plays into my favorite pet theory - that herpesviruses (and/or other microbes) are the cause of Alzheimers:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5457904/pdf/nihms85...