The “green movement” is not setting research agendas or funding for Alzheimer’s. The vast majority of this research operates in the opposite direction, starting with patients and figuring out what they have in common.

The most scarce resource in academia is attention, of which funding and resource agendas are downstream.

This isn’t a criticism of the research.

Research into tobacco harms thrived on the political opposition to big companies.

Nevertheless lots of life saving findings came out of it.