Research on Alzheimer’s disease upset by suspicions of fraud targeting a French researcher?

What if millions of dollars had been squandered on fraudulent studies? What if research on Alzheimer’s disease had been “cheated” for 16 years? These explosive questions arise from reading a survey of the journal Science, published Thursday, July 21. She tells in particular that the images of several studies supporting the hypothesis of the “amyloid cascade” to explain the origins of Alzheimer’s disease, including one published in the journal Nature in 2006, would have been faked.