Scott Alexander at ACX noted that in science commentary, the Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's is dead in the water. Everyone is now panning it, claiming that the research is fraudulent and Big Pharma just wants to keep on making money off it until they can find something new to sell instead. However, mainstream researchers are currently standing by it. So Scott asked for someone from the Amyloid buildup school of causation to defend the case. This is one of the things I have liked about the site from the beginning. (I confess I am finding a few repeated themes a little tiresome, and suspect that some of the reasoning is motivated by some cultural preferences. Well, even the best of us, after all, and I can't rule out that it might be me who has the problem.) Wait, is this really true? Or are we getting ahead of ourselves here. Let's look harder. David Scneider-Joseph: In Defense of the Amyloid Hypothesis.
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