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This isn't my area of study so I'm going literally just based on the text of the article, which states that these plaques were assumed to be the immediate cause of memory deficits and most/many prospective Alzheimer's drugs work by targeting this plaque. All based on a fraudulent study. Please elaborate if that's incorrect.

The study didnt come out of nowhere; it only seemed to confirm one of several hypothesis about Alzheimers that had been circulating for many years by that point. After all, the brains of Alzheimers patients do contain plaques that can sometimes seriously alter the structure of the brain. Those plaques do contain amyloids. Its not much of a stretch to suggest those amyloids are a primary cause of the associated memory loss and dementia. Amyloids cause plaques, plaques cause damage, the damage causes Alzheimer's. QED.