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 these red flags to be ignored for years by peer reviewers, journals, funders and pharmaceutical companies. The result, he argues, was patients enrolled in trials chasing a flawed premise, while legitimate alternative research went underfunded. Meticulously reported with the narrative drive of a thriller, Doctored names names and follows the money, showing how fraud can take root inside trusted institutions and why it so often goes unchallenged.

• Explosive, meticulously researched investigative journalism from a Science magazine reporter
• Exposes a landmark scientific fraud scandal at the heart of Alzheimer's research
• Gripping, fast-paced narrative that reads like a true-crime thriller
• Essential for readers interested in medicine, science policy and research ethics
• Sheds urgent light on the real-world cost of scientific misconduct
• Brand new UK hardback edition, perfect for gifting or collecting

About the Author
Charles Piller is an investigative journalist for Science magazine whose reporting has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Sacramento Bee, among many others. He has received numerous national journalism awards for his work exposing fraud and misconduct in science and medicine. Doctored builds on his years of groundbreaking reporting into the Alzheimer's research scandal, which first broke internationally and prompted investigations by leading scientific institutions. He is also the author of previous investigative works examining science, technology and public health.

Why You'll Love This Book
A gripping, meticulously reported exposé that reads like a thriller while tackling one of medicine's most consequential scandals, Doctored is unmissable for anyone who loves investigative journalism, science and true-crime narratives.

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