A beter example might have been the lack of funding available to alzheimers researchers not looking into the dominant (and now increasingly shaky) amyloid hypot

A beter example might have been the lack of funding available to alzheimers researchers not looking into the dominant (and now increasingly shaky) amyloid hypothesis. which to me looks like a genuine case of a "prefered narative" which may have held back progess for a decode or more.