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This is a time when newspapers, magazines, and TV pundits jump at the slightest chance of reporting Alzheimer’s-related stories that can capture national attention. This “haste without debate” often leads to a daily scattering of unfounded “breakthroughs,” “better understandings,” and “discoveries” that are never heard of again. Most of the attention-grabbing news coverage on Alzheimer’s continues to dispense false hope, confusion, and wildly misleading hype by featuring goofy medical claims that offer little or zero understanding of the complexity involved in this disease. Some claims border on the absurd, like the domestic fly serving as an Alzheimer’s model.
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de la Torre, J.C. (2016). Alzheimer’s Noise. In: Alzheimer’s Turning Point. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34057-9_7
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