Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?

Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by codezero on Sunday August 18, 2013 @03:48AM (#6232024)

I'm baffled by the HN title of this article. There is no place in the article that claims a 100% success rate for curing leukemia.

The title is: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?"

Fighting cancer and curing it are hugely different. Yes, this is a human interest story that outlines the success of a particular patient using a particular method, it's great, but it seems disingenuous to use the title that is here.

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by gmatty on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:15AM (#6232076)

Sorry about that. I can see how its unclear in the way it reads. I shortened a more descriptive title and lost the meaning. I was originally referring to how dramatic the treatment has been for those it has been effective in. I have updated the title.

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by tluyben2 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @03:50AM (#6232027)

9 out of 12 is also not 100%

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by westicle on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:24AM (#6232095)

60% of the time, it works every time.

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by gngeal on Sunday August 18, 2013 @11:12AM (#6232863)

Fighting cancer and curing it are hugely different.

Does it actually matter? It's not like you can clean your body completely of pathogenic viruses and bacteria either.

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by derleth on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:06AM (#6232056)

> I'm baffled by the HN title of this article. There is no place in the article that claims a 100% success rate for curing leukemia.

> The title is: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?"

And here we see the other side of not being able to change (editorialize) titles. I can see both sides of the argument, but I think this example forms a good reason to disallow giving articles different titles.

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by reustle on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:08AM (#6232058)

Isn't that what downvoting is for?

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by tomp on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:31AM (#6232106)

One can't downvote submissions, only flag them.

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by lukeholder on Sunday August 18, 2013 @08:09AM (#6232440)

tomp, you can downvote after you have reached the right points/karma

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by kintamanimatt on Sunday August 18, 2013 @08:53AM (#6232534)

You can downmod comments (and flag them too!), but you can only flag submissions no matter how much karma you have, which is why you've never seen a story with <= 0 points!

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