Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Well, if they fail to prove it, if the science says what you were thinking is not true –

then they can't get published.

You should publish that too because that's science, you know, but it doesn't get published.

So their careers are, you know, endangered.

It's hard for them to get the next grant.

And so a lot of them had this incentive to cheat.

If the hypothesis is a null hypothesis, they don't get it.

You know, their whole future goes into the toilet, potentially.

And so because they knew that study was never going to be replicated, nobody was going to check on them, there was an incentive for them to cheat.

There was a study done about 20 years ago on amyloid plaque.

And that as the cause of Alzheimer's.

And that study came up and said, yeah, it's the cause of Alzheimer's.

Then we spent billions of dollars doing six or 800 studies that followed that.

And they all were.

as it turned out they were all cheating and you know the ones that were many of them were cheating but all of them were kind of confirmatory and all of their hypotheses about what's caused alzheimer's was ignored put on their shelf you couldn't get money for it because they said we already know the answer and then there were drugs developed etc and um and the

In the end, you know, we came in and this scandal was brewing.

The head of Stanford University Medical School had to resign the dean.

Because he was involved in publishing some of these fraudulent studies.

But they did it for 20 years because nobody ever had to really replicate those original studies.

And that happens all the time.