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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by thucydides on Sunday August 18, 2013 @06:55AM (#6232324)
The real headline here: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?" If a headline asks a question, the answer is virtually always "no" or "not yet," but the paper wanted to run a story anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by anonymous on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:50PM (#6234396)
Actually, I was presently surprised that the answer was not the resounding "no" I expected, but instead a "kind of (for a layman's definition of cure, for a certain kind of cancer)".
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