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Doctored : fraud, arrogance, and tragedy in the quest to cure Alzheimer's / Charles Piller.

Piller, Charles, (author.).

Summary:
"For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, an arresting deep dive into how Alzheimer's disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers, negligent regulators, and the profit motives of Big Pharma. Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease, a tragedy that is already projected to grow into a $1 trillion crisis by 2050. While families suffer and promises of pharmaceutical breakthroughs keep coming up short, investigative journalist Charles Piller's Doctored shows that we've quite likely been walking the wrong path to finding a cure all along--led astray by a cabal of self-interested researchers, government accomplices, and corporate greed. Piller begins with a whistleblower--Vanderbilt professor Matthew Schrag--whose work exposed a massive scandal. Schrag found that a University of Minnesota lab led by a precocious young scientist and a Nobel Prize--rumored director delivered apparently falsified data at the heart of the leading hypothesis about the disease. Piller's revelations of Schrag's findings stunned the field and the public. From there, based on years of investigative reporting, Doctored exposes a vast network of deceit and its players, all the way up to the FDA. Piller uncovers evidence that hundreds of important Alzheimer's research papers are based on false data. In the process, he reveals how even against a flood of money and influence, a determined cadre of scientific renegades have fought back to challenge the field's institutional powers in service to science and the tens of thousands of patients who have been drawn into trials to test dubious drugs. It is a shocking tale with huge ramifications not only for Alzheimer's disease, but for scientific research, funding, and oversight at large"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781668031247
  • Physical Description: xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, [2025]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-323) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A vanishing mind -- "Magic hands" -- "Everything is figureoutable" -- The French connection -- Prodigy meets genius -- One hundred years of solitude -- Drug of choice -- Image problem -- Doctored -- "Biology doesn't care" -- Trust but verify -- The "amyloid mafia" -- Blots on a field -- Federal failures -- Scholarly deceptions -- Ivory tower deceits -- Shock and duty -- Slow-motion meltdown -- Survival mode -- Brain games -- Impact on Alzheimer's -- Innovation and hope.
Subject: Alzheimer's disease > Research > Corrupt practices > United States.
Research > Corrupt practices.
Medicine > Corrupt practices.
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices > United States.

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  • 0 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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  • 3 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Allentown Public Library 362.1968/311 (Text) aplacq12909331 New Adult Nonfiction On Order -
Bethlehem Main Library 362.196 (Text) 33062009973943 New Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 02/26/2025
Easton Main Library ACQ255650A0204 (Text) ACQ255650A0204 New Items on Order On Order -


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