Comment by btilly
10 hours ago
That's the viewpoint of everyone sensible outside of Alzheimer's research.
Those in it are still throwing billions per year at the idea.
Meanwhile, back in reality, no amyloid-beta drug has had any clinical effect in humans, other than reducing the plaques. But both the shingles and RSV vaccines are proven to reduce Alzheimer's risk.
Which did not stop the FDA from approving a useless anti-amyloid drug, leading to the resignation of several experts, one of whom called it "probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history" in his resignation letter. [0]
I can't think of a good reason why this happened.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005567149/3-experts-have-res...
not really. your comment is a vast oversimplification of a very complicated topic.