Dr. Bredesen vs. The New York Times: Whose Model Is More Predictive?
This week, The New York Times published yet another example of what has become a familiar genre: the wellness hit piece. This time, the target was Dr. Dale Bredesen, a neurologist who has spent the last decade challenging the status quo in cognitive decline care with a bold and hopeful question: Can Alzheimer’s be reversed?
The article, filled with skepticism, half-contexts, and the usual subtle character digs, does what so many articles like this have done: punch down at those daring to rethink chronic disease, especially when they sit at the uncomfortable intersection of medicine and wellness. It paints Bredesen as something close to a charlatan, sidestepping decades of his published research, ignoring the deep logic of his model, and glossing over the mounting evidence that precision medicine works.
