Charles Piller is an investigative journalist for Science magazine in Oakland, California, and his work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Sacramento Bee, and more.
Piller has been honored with many national journalism awards, and is the author of Gene Wars, The Fail-Safe Society, and Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s. He has reported on public health, biological warfare, infectious disease outbreaks, and other topics from the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America. Follow him on X @CPiller.
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Investigating Fraud At The Heart Of Alzheimer’s Research
In “Doctored,” an investigative journalist outlines how fraud and misconduct have stalled the search for effective Alzheimer’s treatments.
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How Decades Of Research Misconduct Stalled An Alzheimer’s Cure
Research supporting the amyloid hypothesis—the idea that Alzheimer’s is caused by a buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain—was fraudulent.
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Drug Researchers Refuse To Follow The Law. The Government Isn’t Stopping Them.
Almost a third of registered drug studies are not reporting data to the government.