bartathe

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by bartathe 2y ago
You hit the nail on the head. I'm already noticing points I improperly conveyed, necessary context for that that I left out or did not explicitly clarify, avenues to the creation of new misunderstandings that might lead to new public p
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by bartathe 2y ago
I am on fellowship, but have already been warned where I am that TAships might be cut. New rules have been put in place for maximum number of years one can teach, whereas it used to be a requirement that we TA a certain amount of time at al
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by bartathe 2y ago
Yes, it is bogus on its face, I was wrong. I also accidentally miswrote that tau might lead to amyloid beta aggregation, when the "both matter" hypothesis usually argues the opposite relationship. I misspelled Eliezer Masliah&#x27
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by bartathe 2y ago
Thank you for bringing Berislav Zlokovic to my attention. I will bring him up in the office tomorrow. I have personally never heard of him. Neurodegeneration is a really, really large field. Okay, citation count was a metric I should not ha
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by bartathe 2y ago
Thank you for your comment. I am not saying the field was not stalled because of these frauds, I am saying I do not think it was significantly stalled. I think fraud is an easy scapegoat for broader issues, especially when the case that peo
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by bartathe 2y ago
There are many reasons anti-amyloid mABs might not work that well besides "amyloid hypothesis is bunk." You are giving them to very late-stage patients, they don't actually work that well if you look at the data, and some peo
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by bartathe 2y ago
To step back for a second, why is the question always re-directing funding when science funding overall has been steadily eroded by inflation and cuts since the 60s? A few months ago, I looked up the percentage of the American population th
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by bartathe 2y ago
This is my field. There have been three major scandals in the "amyloid" field -- Sylvain Lesne, Eliezer Masliah, and lecanemab trials not informing patients they had the APOE4 variant, which is associated with cerebral amyloid ang
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by bartathe 2y ago
"Four of the top ten" research institutions is probably part of the reason for your experiences. I went to an elite private undergrad as a scholarship student and was sexually abused by the son of high powered lawyers, probably aw