Potential academic fraud that has led to years of research and billions of pounds of wasted investment in treatments https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111914/-Two-decades-of-Alzheimer-s-research-may-be-based-on-deliberate-fraud-that-has-cost-millions-of-lives
The scientific method is the best tool we have to generate knowledge, but damn if stories like these don’t expose its shortcomings.
It's not an issue with the scientific method, it's an issue with the peer review process
@Muc-ed-off started
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Potential academic fraud that has led to years of research and billions of pounds of wasted investment in treatments
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111914/-Two-decades-of-Alzheimer-s-research-may-be-based-on-deliberate-fraud-that-has-cost-millions-of-lives