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That’s because research is incredibly underfunded: https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2015/alzheimers-research.html https://www.aarp.org/health/brai
by melling 7y ago
That’s because research is incredibly underfunded:
https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2015/alzheimers-research.html https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2015/alzheimer...
https://www.alzheimers.net/2013-09-25/alzheimers-research-funding/ https://www.alzheimers.net/2013-09-25/alzheimers-research-fu...
A much larger amount of money has been put in HIV research over the past 25 years, for example, and great progress has been made.
Imagine an equal amount of funding for Alzheimer's over the past 25 years.
- ncmncm 7y agoThat makes it the much more urgent not to squander it all on hypotheses that failed 20 years ago.
- melling 7y agoSure, they can move the small amount of funding to some other promising idea for a decade until it sputters, then pick the next promising idea. Considering the cost to society, we really need invest a lot more now. Then we can look at several ideas in parallel, etc
- ncmncm 7y agoIncreased funding tends to depend on success with what is being spent. Spending more over the past two decades would have been throwing good money after bad, so it is good it wasn't spent. Stewards of that spending have demonstrated their foolishness, year in and year out. The difficulty now is how to wrench control of such spending out of the hands of those who squandered it. Probably the American and maybe European agencies will find themselves unable, being fully captured.