First was the bombshell study that showed that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and that the SSRI drugs that were supposed to “fix” the imbalance did nothing of the sort and were in fact harmful and deadly – causing suicidal and homicidal ideation amongst many other horrible side effects.
Now read the following horror story about Alzheimer’s and the fraudulent studies and drugs that have been being prescribed for the past 15+ years.
Next time you hear about a new drug or whatever that you must take, and that you need to “trust the science”, think about these two examples of “science” and how we were all lied to by the drug companies. Do your own due diligence and demand that you are given complete informed consent before taking any drug prescribed.
Fraudulent Alzheimer’s Study Sets Research Back Years
The Topline: The medical community was rocked this week by allegations that a landmark 2006 Alzheimer’s study included fabricated images and research, raising serious concern from doctors and patients worldwide.
The Study
Up until this month, the 2006 study was viewed as the authoritative literature on Alzheimers, the brain disease that’s the fifth leading cause of death for Americans over the age of 65. The study claimed to have discovered important breakthroughs on proteins in the brain that could be targeted to help patients. One of the co-authors claimed they’d discovered “the first substance ever identified in brain tissue in Alzheimer’s research that has been shown to cause memory impairment.”
Specifics: The study said targeting sticky plaques that build up on the brain of Alzheimer’s patients is the key for curing the disease.
Based on information in this study, for the past 16 years, researchers have been trying to develop medicine that would target this plaque and nothing has worked. Alzheimer’s drugs have had a 99% failure rate in human trials to this point, which has baffled doctors and researchers who can’t figure out why nothing is working. Now, it appears a main reason nothing has been working is because the alleged breakthroughs in the 2006 studies were deliberately fabricated.
Fabrications
The original study was published in Nature Magazine by Dr. Sylvain Lesné, a renowned neuroscientist. At the time, there were a few theories about what caused Alzheimers, but the study claimed to have confirmed the one true cause. But it now appears the supposed breakthrough was based on intentional misinformation.
According to Science Magazine, a researcher at Vanderbilt University first noticed discrepancies in the original study. Now, it appears that dozens of brain scans and other images associated with the study were photoshopped and manipulated to confirm the initial hypothesis.
Remember: 100 of the 130 Alzheimer’s drugs currently working their way through clinical trials have been designed to target the brain plaque listed in the study as the culprit for the disease.
For the last 16 years, billions of dollars have gone towards developing treatments that were based on fabricated research. More concerning, the study also led doctors to stop researching other theories about the disease that could have unlocked a cure by now.
And… Since doctors used the findings of this study to help diagnose cases, experts now say there are likely thousands of instances in which people died of Alzheimers but were never diagnosed, or that those with other types of dementia were falsely diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
The NIH’s Role
The Vanderbilt researcher who first discovered the fabricated research tried to sound the alarm by sending a letter to the NIH with all of the evidence he’d compiled. Rather than acting on the letter, the NIH reportedly never responded, and four months later, they gave Dr. Lesne another five-year grant to study Alzheimers.
The grant was reportedly awarded by Austin Yang, the program director for the NIH Institute on Aging. Yang is also listed as one of the co-authors on the fraudulent study itself.