Money and power?-----How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure - STAT

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure - STAT
"In the 30 years that biomedical researchers have worked determinedly to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, their counterparts have developed drugs that helped cut deaths from cardiovascular disease by more than half, and cancer drugs able to eliminate tumors that had been incurable.
But for Alzheimer’s, not only is there no cure, there is not even a disease-slowing treatment.
The brain, Alzheimer’s researchers patiently explain, is hard — harder than the heart, harder even than cancer.
While that may be true, it is increasingly apparent that there is another, more disturbing reason for the tragic lack of progress: 
The most influential researchers have long believed so dogmatically in one theory of Alzheimer’s that they systematically thwarted alternative approaches.
Several scientists described those who controlled the Alzheimer’s agenda as “a cabal.”
In more than two dozen interviews, scientists whose ideas fell outside the dogma recounted how, for decades, believers in the dominant hypothesis suppressed research on alternative ideas:
They influenced what studies got published in top journals, which scientists got funded, who got tenure, and who got speaking slots at reputation-buffing scientific conferences.
This stifling of competing ideas, say a growing number of scholars, is a big reason why there is no treatment for Alzheimer’s.
(The four approved drugs have no effect on the disease, providing only a temporary memory boost.)..."
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