Amjad Masad

It's money and status and that these guys want to be recognized as being the experts in this field and then they get leaned on by these corporations that –

are financially incentivizing them, and then it just gets really fucking disturbing.

It's really scary because you're playing with people's health.

You're playing with people's lives, and you're giving people information that you know to be bad.

Allegations of fabricated research undermine key Alzheimer's theory.

Six-month investigation by Science Magazine uncovered evidence that images in the much-cited study published 16 years ago in the journal Nature may have been doctored.

They are doctored, yeah.

Hugh Berman actually told me about this, too.

You know, this is disturbing fucking shit, man.

It uncovered evidence that images in the much-cited study published 16 years ago may have been doctored.

These findings have thrown skepticism on the work of, I don't know how to say his name, Sylvain Lesnay, a neuroscientist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and his research would fuel the interest in a specific assembly of proteins as a promising target for the treatment of Alzheimer's research.

He didn't respond to NBC News request comments, nor did provide comment to Science Magazine.

It found more than 20 suspect papers.

Identified more than 70 instances of possible image tampering in his studies.

Whistleblower Dr. Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University, raised concerns last year about the possible manipulation of images in multiple papers.

Carl Herup, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, who wasn't involved in the investigation, said the findings are really bad for science.

It's never shameful to be wrong in silence, said Herup.

I hope I'm saying his name right.

Who also worked at the school's Alzheimer's Research Center, Disease Research Center.

A lot of the best science is done by people being wrong and proving first if they were wrong and then why they were wrong.