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If you don't understand that correlation doesn't imply causation, you should be sent back to your first year of high school and forced to try it all again.
What, if not correlation, does imply causation?
No.
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals. Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. The…
Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Aging (Albany NY). 2016 Jun;8(6):1250-8. doi: 10.18632/aging.100981.
Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program. Aging (Albany NY). 2014; 6:707-17. doi: 10.18632/aging.100690.
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals. Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. The…
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals. Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. The…
My intuition is that it is more likely caused by an infection than that it is just a malfunction caused by random chance
This is from March. Any critiques published?
I read, with great hope, every Alzheimer's breakthrough but in the last year alone the key has been found out to be: 1. Exercise for oxygen 2. Gum disease 3. Standing up and feeling a head rush 4. blood sugar and diabetes If we can believe each of these 4 is the key insight within 12 months, I have to wonder at the state of our knowledge about the disease.
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals. Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. The…
There is a known cure for early Alzheimer's. https://www.aging-us.com/article/9R5JsRe8k4Jq7uTXj/text Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Aging (Albany NY). 2016 Jun;8(6):1250-8. doi: 10.18632/aging.100981. Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program. Aging (Albany NY). 2014; 6:707-17. doi: 10.18632/aging.100690.
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/mend-protocol-for-alzhe...
The commercialization of the MEND protocol might have run into some partnership issues between the original researcher and the first company he worked with dispensing the treatment:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dr-dale-bredesen-ann...
Here is a more layman-friendly description of the MEND protocol.
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals. Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. The…
There is a known cure for early Alzheimer's. https://www.aging-us.com/article/9R5JsRe8k4Jq7uTXj/text Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Aging (Albany NY). 2016 Jun;8(6):1250-8. doi: 10.18632/aging.100981. Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program. Aging (Albany NY). 2014; 6:707-17. doi: 10.18632/aging.100690.
The number of patients studied is too few, i.e. is grossly underpowered statistically, and the results do not allow any general conclusion to be drawn.
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals. Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. The…
Why do you doubt that it is (or can be) caused by infectious agents, aside from the fact that in science doubt should be the default position. Is there evidence against it? My intuition is that it is more likely caused by an infection than that it is just a malfunction caused by random chance
If it is caused by a specific infection, then one would expect such a specific infection to cause the disease in young as well as older people.
Neither of these scenarios are known to occur.
If you extend beyond these simple scenarios, then you have to assume that there is another (unknown) factor that induces Alzheimer's disease, and therefore that the theory of infectious disease causing this condition is not sufficient.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you doubt that it is (or can be) caused by infectious agents, aside from the fact that in science doubt should be the default position. Is there evidence against it? My intuition is that it is more likely caused by an infection than that it is just a malfunction caused by random chance
I doubt it because if it were caused by an infection, one would expect infections to cause Alzheimer's disease-like conditions more generally. If it is caused by a specific infection, then one would expect such a specific infection to cause the disease in young as well as older people. Neither of these scenarios are known to occur. If you extend beyond these simple scenarios, then you have to assume that there is ano…