Many people … pretended to suffer from cognitive impairment to join the trial, for example by intentionally drawing a clock incorrectly. [T]he participants whose data had to be tossed out included many grandmothers who saw a chance to make thousands of dollars a year by simultaneously joining multiple trials for which they did not qualify.
You gotta figure the grandkids are monetizing la nana by priming her for multiple clinical trials — not only training her in drawing a clock with the six up and the twelve down, but in how to tremble uncontrollably, and in how to shriek psychotically. South Florida runs so many trials that the kids must have a system of charts – South Dixie Highway: Parkinson’s, Dolphin Express: Alzheimer’s – to keep track of diseases and locations. Do they deprive granny of water and meds for a few hours prior to testing, for greater symptomaticity?