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> No one was twirling their mustache trying to make people suffer. Someone had a lab, and prestige and control over funding and the best way to keep it all was
by KPGv2 1y ago
> No one was twirling their mustache trying to make people suffer. Someone had a lab, and prestige and control over funding and the best way to keep it all was by being dishonest.
The second sentence and the first sentence are merely literal and figurative descriptions of the same activity.
Also, for this to be true, it has to mean lab workers knew about progress but fucked over their own family with Alzheimers. And it has to mean every single one of them did this.
*Edit* Actually there's another way to interpret what you wrote. My mistake. I imagined a scenario where someone knew of progress and was dishonest by hiding it, but you might've been alluding to someone knowing an avenue wasn't fruitful but was dishonest by making it seem more fruitful.
I think the latter is easier to hide than the former since it doesn't require directly fucking over your family, merely very indirectly by siphoning off a fraction of total funds to be flushed down the toilet.
- feoren 1y agoThe latter is what happened, for upwards of ten years. And it wasn't a small fraction of the funding -- almost no funding was allocated to any research not looking at amyloid plaques, because the intellectual giants' (falsified) research was showing that that was by far the most promising avenue to explore.
- matthewdgreen 1y agoAgain, there were a couple of instances of fraud in one sub-branch of a sub-branch of a field ages ago, and The Internet has decided to turn it into a conspiracy theory. On the off chance that you're actually a decent, honest person, I urge you to actually go learn about this theory that you're promoting. Go out and actually figure out the truth, because if it turns out that you're wrong about the impact and intentions, you're helping to harm a lot of people.