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Subject: Weekly Briefing: How did Alzheimer's research rely on falsified data?
Alzheimer’s research relied on falsified data. How?
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For years, research on Alzheimer’s disease operated on one explanation for its cause. But the research relied on falsified data. In his new book, Charles Piller, an investigative journalist at Science
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Alzheimer’s research relied on falsified data. How?
Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock
For years, research on Alzheimer’s disease operated on one explanation for its cause. But the research relied on falsified data. In his new book, Charles Piller, an investigative journalist at Science, explains how the field gathered around this idea. Our Stephanie M. Lee spoke with Piller. Read the interview.
College leaders: Buck up and fight back on endowment taxes. The second Trump administration has brought an onslaught of campaign promises turned executive orders. Republicans haven’t taken steps to tax college endowments, but when he was serving as a U.S. senator from Ohio, Vice President JD Vance did propose legislation to levy a 35-percent tax on the investment income of wealthy colleges. Now is not the time for college leaders to just denounce these potential changes, writes Gregory Conti for The Review. Conti, an associate professor of politics at Princeton University, argues that leaders need to understand why these proposals have emerged, and prepare for a more difficult battle to fight them. Read his argument.
How to handle the chaos. Colleges have spent the first weeks of the Trump administration in disarray. As college leaders deal with ever-changing directives and misinformation, it can be difficult to direct a campus with clarity. In The Review, Brendan Cantwell, a professor of higher, adult, and lifelong education at Michigan State University, offers leaders advice to stand out, like revising risk management to limit pre-emptive compliance and avoiding appeals of false hope. Learn more.
Last week’s most-read story: Trump singled out these 130 colleges as possible targets for investigation. Is yours on the list?
Catch up on the rise and fall of DEI. In this week’s episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, senior editor Daarel Burnette II explains how the effort to “ban” diversity, equity, and inclusion work has been years in the making across state legislatures and, in turn, on public-college campuses. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
Lagniappe
Read. I’m reading a novel about one day in the life of a space station orbiting the Earth. It’s Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital. (The Booker Prizes)
Listen. Is our generation taking too much “me time,” enough to where we’d prefer to be alone than with friends, family, or community members? Derek Thompson, a staff writer for The Atlantic, offers his answer on this episode of Fresh Air. (NPR)
College administrators say the efforts are an effective way to repair decades of discrimination. Republican politicians say the practices violate the law.
More than 800 colleges are eligible for $1 billion in annual federal funding based on their student body’s racial composition. Activists want Congress to redirect the funds or courts to intervene.
The opening weeks of President Trump’s new administration has leaders asking how to weather the consequences of early executive orders — and how to plan for future actions.
