https://nitter.net/BriannaWu/status/1550636596302696449?t=SH2didvQ6zexLQuZZN35iQ&s=19
The drug was being pushed into trials by its manufacturer, Cassava Sciences, but a group of scientists who reviewed the drug maker’s claims about Simufilam believed that it was exaggerating the potential. So they did what any reasonable person would do: They purchased short sell positions in Cassava Sciences stock
This is not what reasonable people do.
This is not what reasonable people do
the upper classes have fundamentally different values from everyone else
What’s funny is my PI has been saying for years that she doesn’t think A-Beta is responsible. It bring deliberate fraud is fucking crazy though.
I wish a very
[minecraft]
I hope their gold can stave off the terror that is Dementia
to all those involved.
Principle investigator, it’s the professor in charge of a lab at a university
Pair this with the Replication Crisis and I suspect a significant percentage of "Scientific Research" performed in capitalist countries since the late 90s is fraudulent, capitalism and science mix like oil and water, only state funded and led projects like from the Cold War can be trusted to suppress the creep of profit motive
And this is just the hard science, I already also suspect most western Historiography on Socialist states and any history that touches on capitalism in general is based on fabrication and ideological conditioning, not any honest historical research
To quote the Trillbillies, we're in one hell of an epistemological crisis
Agreed, and what’s fucking baffling is that US universities have actively taken measures in the last few decades to encourage profit seeking behavior and “competition.” And I genuinely think that invalidates basically every bit of research we’ve done for years.
This is an interesting story to see at exactly the same time as Cuba is finding successful treatments for it. We should make sure these two things are connected for people.
In Capitalism Alzheimers research was sabotaged and millions were condemned to a terrifying and hellish way to die.
In Communism Alzheimers research found a treatment that will genuinely improve millions of lives .
I still remember a post on reddit by someone claiming he'd been told by medical professionals that aKsHuALLy Cuban doctors were awful and far behind on medical advances, that they basically didn't know how to do their jobs, and despite being flown worldwide to help people were actually useless.
Cuba's success just doesn't match everything these people have ever been told.
I see people post this a lot on reddit. Obviously I have no real basis to evaluate how effective cuban doctors are but I just assume, like most times, that redditors are full of shit
Andrew Wakefield has somehow still escaped execution despite falsifying his bullshit anti-vax research
We don't execute visionary pioneers like him here in the States.
he did have his right to practice medicine taken away so that's something
it's almost like actually caring about the wellbeing of people is good
Sorry I'm too busy being enraged by Andrew tate videos on tiktok. What where you saying?
16 years of potential research into Alzheimer’s treatments have been wasted by fraudsters.
The duct tape and caulking is really coming off capitalism at an alarming rate as its fraudulence gets exposed.
I don't trust the US government to hand out death penalties obviously so I'm opposed to it in practice, but shit like this really gets me feeling like someone needs an execution over it.
Incompetence is one thing, but to deliberately sabotage both research and diagnoses on Alzheimer's/dementia for 16 years? How many people did these assholes condemn to an awful death? How many families watched their parents and grandparents just disappear so that what? They could get some scientist clout?
Being responsible for that happening even once is unbelievably wicked, but on this scale?
this was out of the University of Minnesota, which has had uhh problems with some of their research in the past too.
I did the google for 45 seconds saw nothing damning and gave up… I’ll bite. What problems?
