Key Alzheimer’s Research May Have Relied on Falsified Data: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
July 22, 2022

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Please see the following statement from PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe regarding the apparent fabrication of Alzheimer’s research data as investigated by Science.

This is a devastating loss for humans who need viable treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and for the millions of animals who suffered because someone cared more about accolades than good science. Unfortunately, it’s just one of thousands of examples demonstrating the tendency of animal experimenters to overstate the value of their research and of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) almost complete lack of scrutiny concerning how it spends taxpayer dollars. In this case, it seems that experimenters using mice and rats have misled the entire Alzheimer’s research community, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding of efforts to cure a disease that kills more than a million humans each year. This situation comes as no surprise to PETA, which has spent decades exposing experimenters’ lies and NIH’s refusal to take action. The entire system must be overhauled, and again, we urge NIH to accept PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.

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