Exposing Widespread Corruption In Alzheimer's Research | Charles Piller

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

DM Operations Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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I'll teach you how to become the media's go-to expert in your field. Enroll in The Professional's Media Academy now: https://www.professionalsmediaacademy.com/Listen to my podcast, The Checkup with Doctor Mike, here:Spotify: https://go.doctormikemedia.com/spotify/CheckUpSpotifyApple Podcasts: https://go.doctormikemedia.com/applepodcast/ApplePodcasts

Pick up a copy of Charles Piller's new book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's " here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Doctored/Charles-Piller/9781668031247

00:00 Intro

01:21Loss Of Trust

11:52 Paper Mills

13:57 His Bombshell Report

19:37 Where Corruption Comes From

25:16 Don’t They Know They’ll Be Caught?

27:54 Image Manipulation

32:03 Competition For Grants

40:30 Peer Review Process

44:19 Is Everything About Alzheimer’s A Lie?

47:22 Trump Administration / RFK Jr.

51:11 Can You Trust Your Doctor?

57:45 Shared Decision Making

1:00:14 FDA Challenges

1:05:54 Cost Of Healthcare

1:08:05 What Should Be The Punishment

1:12:50 How “Science” Has Changed

1:17:47 COVID Messaging

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1:00.2	Science and medicine sometimes have an arrogance problem.
1:04.3	They use the idea that trust us or the experts.
1:09.1	All across the United States, school buildings sit empty. Unfortunately, that trust has were the experts. All across the United States, school buildings sit empty.
1:12.3	Unfortunately, that trust has to be one, not just assumed.
1:16.4	Often, scientists are entrusted with policy decisions for which they have no specific expertise,
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