This is an epistemologically leaky argument. The goal of an Alzheimer’s drug is not to reduce amyloid plaques, it’s to treat Alzheimer’s. There is, as of now, n

This is an epistemologically leaky argument. The goal of an Alzheimer’s drug is not to reduce amyloid plaques, it’s to treat Alzheimer’s. There is, as of now, no evidence that it does so. Giving people false hope of treating a horrible disease does actually seem more unethical than not giving them the treatment at all.