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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 o…

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 t…

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 opposi…

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 la…

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 sca…

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 th…

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 a…

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 vari…

"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 abus…