Stoj: Rebecca Wood, the chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said that a quarter of the Department of Health's £700m research and development money was spent on cancer research, more than six times the figure received by dementia researchers.

Here's where they start spending more money to fight the ailments that cost them the most instead of the ones that kill people.

Right...Personally, I'd rather suffer and die of cancer than turn into a drooling mental retard (and then die). Or do you think Alzheimer's is no different than ED?

thalidomide new and improved: Code_Archeologist: It is a chicken little scam for more research cash.

I was always told by the Global Warming researchers that researchers never fudge or stretch data to show findings that would support the need for more research monies, like that Global Warming is real, we're farked, and we'd better start cutting checks to solve these sorts of problems.

I don't want to touch global warming, but you do realize that all grant proposals are extensively peer-reviewed and will not be funded unless good data exists? In addition, if you are found to be fudging data (and auditing of data does occur), your scientific career is ostensibly over.

Regardless, to infer that dementia is not a significant problem that should not be further researched is both disingenuous and heartless.