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Comment by getnormality

Downvoters, are you sure you have a rational basis for downvoting this informative post? Do us HNers really know enough to discredit the amyloid hypothesis when 99.9% of us know nothing other than it's gotten some bad press in recent years?

I googled lecanemab and it does have the clinical support claimed. I don't see anyone questioning the data. I'm as surprised as anyone else, even a little suspicious, but I have to accept this as true, at least provisionally.

For anyone who wants to start grappling with the true complexity of this issue, I found a scholarly review [1] from October 2024.

[1] The controversy around anti-amyloid antibodies for treating Alzheimer’s disease. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11624191

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