- A tire chemical called 6PPD-Q, already blamed for killing salmon, was examined for possible links to Alzheimer’s disease in a new computer-based study.
- Using computer models, researchers found that the chemical can latch onto several proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and reach brain regions involved in the disease.
- No patients or animals were tested; the study rests entirely on computer predictions and reused datasets, so it cannot prove the chemical causes Alzheimer’s.
maybe, but AI systems used for scientific research are fundamentally different from the slop machines available to the public. they’re designed for a single very specific purpose from a relevant dataset and the results are checked by experts; it’s not just the entire internet regurgitated by an LLM and trained by a 22-year-old nepo-baby with an MBA