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Restoring Public Trust in Science and Clearing Up Misconceptions about Alzheimer's Disease Controversies
Smith, Tyler
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/126457
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- Title
- Restoring Public Trust in Science and Clearing Up Misconceptions about Alzheimer's Disease Controversies
- Author(s)
- Smith, Tyler
- Issue Date
- 2023
- Keyword(s)
- Alzheimer's disease
- public trust
- ethics
- Date of Ingest
- 2025-03-13T20:42:39-05:00
- Abstract
- Scientific research is supposed to be conducted in pursuit of the truth while maintaining high ethics and standards to allow for trust between scientists and the public. There is a level of rigor that is expected to have been performed when a novel drug comes to market or a major advancement in science is announced. However, in the past few years, that notion has been challenged because of the falsification of data published about Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is the most common type of dementia. In 2022, about 6.5 million Americans were estimated to be living with AD, whereas a predicted 14 million Americans will be living with AD by 2060 (Kumar, 2021). One of the many hypotheses for what causes AD to develop is the aggregation of amyloid beta (Ab) plaque in the hippocampus and cortex of the brain. It is believed that these aggregates form tangles in the extracellular space between neurons in the brain leading to neuronal degeneration.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Undergraduate Neuroscience Society
- Type of Resource
- text
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2023 Tyler Smith
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