Plain English with Derek Thompson | 11 February 2025 | 0h 57m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Charles Piller about his book Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s. Discusses that some of the most famous and revered neuroscientists in America have been accused of doctoring images in research related to Alzheimer’s and neuroscience, as they raised tens of millions of dollars in funding based on this doctored science, set up clinical trials for thousands of patients based on these manipulated results, and how a silent conspiracy of groupthink starved the field research field of fresh ideas, with catastrophic consequences.