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Yeah, is totally absurd that given the health care and social cost of of Alzheimer's we're not taking Broad shotgun approach to investigating potential remedies.

There are a lot of treatments that's worth dumping several million dollars in even if they are low probability of having durable effects.

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It doesn't happen because of the structure of society. Capitalism efficiently allocates capital, but does not maximize citizen quality-of-life.

Either that or bureaucratic NIH grant grant approvers have no balls.

Do you have any evidence to accuse NIH of fault, or is your comment pure speculation?

I have been turned down for a half dozen grants in AD research I think could impact millions of lives, and see them funding bs and no impact projects.

I obviously have biases and an axe to grind, but these are my opinions.

Thanks for explaining. How about publishing those rejected grant proposals?

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