Icon Books Doctored Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimers.

For Readers Of Empire Of Pain And Dopesick, An Arresting Deep Dive Into How AlzheimerS Disease Treatment Has Been Set Back By Corrupt Researchers, Negligent Regulators, And The Profit Motives Of Big Pharma.Nearly Seven Million Americans Live With AlzheimerS Disease, A Tragedy That Is Already Projected To Grow Into A $1 Trillion Crisis By 2050. While Families Suffer And Promises Of Pharmaceutical Breakthroughs Keep Coming Up Short, Investigative Journalist Charles PillerS Doctored Shows That WeVe Quite Likely Been Walking The Wrong Path To Finding A Cure All Along - Led Astray By A Cabal Of Self-Interested Researchers, Government Accomplices, And Corporate Greed.Piller Begins With A Whistleblower - Vanderbilt Professor Matthew Schrag - Whose Work Exposed A Massive Scandal. Schrag Found That A University Of Minnesota Lab Led By A Precocious Young Scientist And A Renowned Director Delivered Apparently Falsified Data At The Heart Of The Leading Hypothesis About The Disease. PillerS Revelations Of SchragS Findings Stunned The Field And The Public.From There, Based On Years Of Investigative Reporting, Doctored Exposes A Vast Network Of Deceit And Its Players, All The Way Up To The Fda. Piller Uncovers Evidence That Hundreds Of Important AlzheimerS Research Papers Are Based On False Data. In The Process, He Reveals How Even Against A Flood Of Money And Influence, A Determined Cadre Of Scientific Renegades Have Fought Back To Challenge The FieldS Institutional Powers In Service To Science And The Tens Of Thousands Of Patients Who Have Been Drawn Into Trials To Test Dubious Drugs. It Is A Shocking Tale With Huge Ramifications Not Only For AlzheimerS Disease, But For Scientific Research, Funding, And Oversight At Large.