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British scientists pave way for simple pill to cure Alzheimer’s
- lutusp 13y agoThe article is scarcely worth glancing at. It has all the deplorable elements in popular science journalism -- a total misreading of the research, a conclusion completely unsupported by the original work, and employment of every stock science journalism cliche including the perennial favorite: "breakthrough". One barely begins reading when they get to "UK researchers discover how to halt death of brain cells". That's not a cure -- if true it can only prevent further damage, and the person's faculties won't improve, they just won't degrade further. Also, the model is laboratory animals with prion disease. A prion is a tiny organism, smaller than a virus, but that can replicate. Alzheimer's is not a prion disease, so the model is questionable. Finally, the title of this submission is not the title of the article, which only adds to the confusion.