Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's by Charles Piller - Hardback

Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9781837732593. Publisher: Icon Books. Age Range: Adult / General Readership. Overview. Doctored is Charles Piller's explosive investigation into the scientific fraud, institutional arrogance and wasted decades that have derailed the global search for an Alzheimer's cure. Drawing on years of forensic reporting for Science magazine, Piller exposes how falsified data, self-interested researchers and complicit institutions sent the field down a costly dead end, while millions of patients and families paid the price. This is essential, urgent reading for anyone who cares about medical integrity, scientific accountability and the real human cost of research misconduct.. About the Book. Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease, a crisis projected to grow into a $1 trillion burden by 2050. For decades, the dominant theory for the disease's cause pointed to amyloid plaques in the brain, shaping how billions of research dollars were spent and which drugs reached patients. In Doctored, award-winning journalist Charles Piller reveals how this consensus may have rested on fabricated foundations. The story begins with Vanderbilt neurologist Matthew Schrag, a whistleblower whose painstaking analysis uncovered apparently falsified data in landmark studies from a University of Minnesota lab, research at the very heart of the leading Alzheimer's hypothesis. Piller traces how ambition, prestige and financial interest allowed thes...