I collaborate with an expert in Alzheimer's Disease. She stated to me that the Amyloid hypothesis was so strong for so long because it is "like the garbage left

I collaborate with an expert in Alzheimer's Disease. She stated to me that the Amyloid hypothesis was so strong for so long because it is "like the garbage left over in a stadium after a big event...you see concrete evidence something happened, it's obvious this garbage is bad and should be cleaned up, but the garbage itself did not cause the event."