What makes me the most angry about this is the huge difference between what the scientist personally gained from this fraud and the cost of believing in these results for that past 16 years. Maybe he is a bit richer because of this, but it comes at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on research that is destined to be fruitless.
In the time since he published, I lost my father after investing hope that a trial that is supposed to prevent amyloid plaques and now my mother-in-law is slipping further into dementia.
In the time since he published, I lost my father after investing hope that a trial that is supposed to prevent amyloid plaques and now my mother-in-law is slipping further into dementia.