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How about "The beta-amyloid paradigm thwarted progress toward an Alzheimer’s cure"?
by mirimir 7y ago
How about "The beta-amyloid paradigm thwarted progress toward an Alzheimer’s cure"?
- dang 7y agoOk, we'll use something like that. Thanks! Edit: I've changed it back because readers are divided on this.
- hitekker 7y agoI 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.
- mirimir 7y agoThat's why I suggested "paradigm". Because that includes all the political stuff. Not just a widely accepted hypothesis.