Charles Piller
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 17 Apr
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They can be drawn into actions that are counterproductive, that are even counter to what their expressed views and wishes would be.
And my job is to try to tell the bigger story, to tell the human story behind some of these concerns so that I don't want to leave readers with a sense of cynicism.
I think it's important to view the world
as it is but to also to try to generate a sense of hopefulness about what it can be by exposing bad actions and trying to correct them and also pointing out where things in the future might benefit from some of the work that's being done
Sure.
Thanks for that question, John.
As an investigative reporter, I am used to people pushing back against some of the things I write.
This comes with the territory.
And normally I just like to let it wash over me because let's face it, people are entitled to their say, and I have a pretty big platform.
I have an opportunity to put out my work in a way that's read by many people.
And if people have different ideas, people of good faith should be allowed to say whatever they want.
And I'm just going to let that happen.
But I think there have been some disingenuous criticisms of my work that to me are troubling because they reflect some of the weaknesses in the arguments made by scientists in the Alzheimer's field about their own work.
And specifically, what you were referring to is that some top officials in the Trump administration, including RFK Jr.
and Jay Bhattacharya, who was the head of the National Institutes of Health, have used references to my work and my concerns about elements of research in Alzheimer's disease
that I regard as having been corrupted by bad behavior by scientists as a way of making a larger critique of the scientific community.
And so many things, in my view, about the Trump administration's critiques of society, I think there's an element of truth in what they were saying, but that their, in my view, ham-handed way of describing these matters and their relentless attacks on scientific institutions such as universities
And the grantees of federal agencies, to me, is exactly the wrong approach to solving some of the problems in the scientific record.
That said, I think some scientists in a misguided way have misrepresented my work, have used what I would call straw man arguments to describe my work as somehow responsible for these attacks.
This is ludicrous.
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