Does this mean that the whole theory of how Alzheimer’s develops becomes obsolete? And have billions of dollars been poured into wrong drug development because of the work of a single researcher?
An Alzheimer’s patient in a specially designed memory room in a Dutch nursing home.
A new research scandal raises some very uncomfortable questions about the science community in general and drug development priorities. It’s about Alzheimer’s research, on which the hopes of millions of patients and their families depend. Specifically, the French researcher Sylvain Lesné is said to have falsified several studies on the development of the disease over the years. The specialist magazine has about this “Science” reported in detail a few days ago.