📗 Libro en inglés DOCTORED

For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick an arresting deep dive into how Alzheimer s disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers negligent regulators and the profit motives of Big Pharma Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer s 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 Piller s Doctored shows that we ve 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 Piller s revelations of Schrag s 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 Alzheimer s research pape