On: Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure

[nobodyandproud → winterbloom]

No, but the careers and reputation of those who lead this avenue and undermined good science must be conclusively ruined.

We can start by letting the truth come light in stark and unambiguous terms again and again, along with the billions of dollars in damage and hundreds of thousands if not millions of families left to suffer thanks to prestige and fraud.

Better yet, also reward the risk takers then and now; trying to chase good science as hazardous as it was.

[readthenotes1 → nobodyandproud]

Like the former President of Stanford? It took years for him to be given the golden parachute

[nobodyandproud → readthenotes1]

If the shoe fits.

It’s a big scandal and I suspect researchers in businesses and universities be found complicit; if we have the appetite and headcount to chase it.

I have little tolerance for fraud, and this is an example of why trust in science (the institution) is at an all-time-low.

[throwawaymaths → readthenotes1]

good news! he's doing a vc-backed startup now

[hooverd → throwawaymaths]

nevermind he's good now

[cortesoft → winterbloom]

I know this is a flippant comment, but do you really think this would solve the problem? I feel like this would just lead to academic misconduct never being reported. It is hard enough to get someone to report a fellow academic for fraud when the only consequence is professional reputation; do you really think ANYONE would turn in a colleague when the consequence is death?

Plus, people would be so scared that they will make a mistake that will be interpreted as fraud that no one will want to publish research.

[ein0p → cortesoft]

Maybe not "execute" but some real-world accountability would be nice. As in, perhaps, a lengthy prison sentence.