As a former scientist who was working in Alzheimer’s research and knew that beta amyloid plaques were a red herring for years, no shit. Science has a replication issue, and an even worse data manipulation/fabrication issue.
My research was challenging the dogma of beta amyloid, and I was told in no uncertain terms when my grant proposal was denied that “challenging the dogma would lead to denial of funds”. Despite the fact that I had actual, real, genuine data pushing forward my hypothesis (and data that flat out showed beta amyloid doesn’t have a function some people claimed it did) I was still turned down. Academia and science in general has decayed, with very few real research projects being done. It saddens me deeply, and I hope one day after it is fixed I can return.
As a former scientist who was working in Alzheimer’s research and knew that beta amyloid plaques were a red herring for years, no shit. Science has a replication issue, and an even worse data manipulation/fabrication issue.
My research was challenging the dogma of beta amyloid, and I was told in no uncertain terms when my grant proposal was denied that “challenging the dogma would lead to denial of funds”. Despite the fact that I had actual, real, genuine data pushing forward my hypothesis (and data that flat out showed beta amyloid doesn’t have a function some people claimed it did) I was still turned down. Academia and science in general has decayed, with very few real research projects being done. It saddens me deeply, and I hope one day after it is fixed I can return.