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The Groundless Memory Research Boasts of the Late Susumu Tonegawa

Sourcehttps://headtruth.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-bogus-memory-research-boasts-of.html
AuthorMark Mahin
Published2026-07-20, 12:00 PM
SummaryToday's neuroscience is guilty of promoting many a groundless triumphal legend. One of those groundless socially-constructed triumphal legends is the clam that researcher Susumu Tonegawa did something to show a physical basis for memory. Tonegawa recently died, and the Transmitter magazine has a worshipful article repeating some of these groundless legends. The article starts out by quoting false boasts about the very low-quality 2015 paper "Engram cells retain memory under retrograde amnesia" c
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