Centaur World Appreciation

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

HELL YEAH

“You see, sometimes we hide from the scary things

By trying to side with those very things.

In this case, that would be the Nowhere King, he’s a false savior.

You might feel initial relief

But I promise you, it will be brief

Because this is a case of…[crowd:] unhealthy attachment!

Happy First Anniversary Centaurworld!

🎉 !!!Happy First Anniversary!!!🎉

Characters cheerfully stealing things is the best! :D

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) narrowly approved the use of Aduhelm, a new drug from Biogen that the company has priced so highly that it’s expected to drive up the price of Medicare for everyone in America, even those who never need this drug. Aduhelm was the first drug to be approved that fights the accumulation of those "amyloid plaques" in the brain. What makes the approval of the $56,000-a-dose drug so controversial is that while it does decrease plaques, it doesn’t actually slow Alzheimer’s. In fact, clinical trials were suspended in 2019 after the treatment showed “no clinical benefits.” (Which did not keep Biogen from seeking the drug’s approval or pricing it astronomically.)

Over the last two decades, Alzheimer’s drugs have been notable mostly for having a 99% failure rate in human trials. It’s not unusual for drugs that are effective in vitro and in animal models to turn out to be less than successful when used in humans, but Alzheimer’s has a record that makes the batting average in other areas look like Hall of Fame material.

Schrag went to the papers the drug was basing its research on (the same paper most research the last decade has been based on) and noticed something he refers politely to as "red flags". He noticed the brain scans it uses as evidence looked altered and pieced together.

He tried to politely and discretely talk to the National Institutes of Health about it but they ignored him, so he brought it to other groups.

They started researching it all and a lot of people have noticed and agree that that paper, which is foundational in the study of Alzheimers treatments, doctored brain scans to support their hypothesis.

A lot of the information based on that paper could potentially have led to patients being misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's when their dementia was caused by something else, or not being diagnosed.

For a bit of context, most Alzheimer's treatments are extraordinarily ineffective, so if this is the reason, then the tens of billions of dollars and the last decade of time went towards research that was doomed from the start