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I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they'

I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.

themythfable 15d ago
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- throwyonion 15d ago
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candlemas 15d ago
In the related articles sidebar there is an article from 2020: Is this Nefertiti’s tomb? Radar clues reignite debate over hidden chambers A new survey hints at a previously unknown space beyond Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y
kaonwarb 15d ago
There may well be a surfeit of articles, but at least in cancer research, we've had extraordinary progress recently. See, for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5
dekhn 15d ago
While the popular press does bungle nearly all cancer research findings, the last 20 years have been unbelievably productive in cancer treatment. No, we haven't and aren't going to cure cancer any time soon.
- BurningFrog 15d ago
  The thing is that "cancer" is thousands of separate diseases with similar traits. We'll never cure all of the at once, which is what "cure cancer" means, but we've been curing plenty of them lately!
  - timr 15d ago
    If by “curing”, you mean, “extending some indirect measurement that doesn’t correlate with survival”, then sure. Lots of those, usually backed by tiny, poorly controlled trials. Daraxonrasib was a rare exception. Most new cancer drugs are expensive and of dubious efficacy. Even daraxonrasib has a rather underwhelming life extension benefit, and huge side effects. But there’s no alternative, so people take what they can get.
  - dekhn 14d ago
    There are two different "cure cancer" meanings. I meant, when somebody stops having cancer, we don't say they were cured. We say they are remission. That's because even if you completely remove all visible tumor, 20 years later, a new tumor with the same genetic/cellular origin can arise. But the other meaning- modified slightly: "it is unlikely we will find a generic treatment that affects all types of cancer, since the underlying etiology of different incidences of cancer varies so much", is definitely also true.
malux85 15d ago
Put your phone down, put your laptop down. Go to the park without your devices and lay on the grass under a tree. Hear the sound of trees. The smell of nature. Feel the sun warming your face. You mind will trick you, convince you "youre too busy for this", "youre hungry", "your back hurts you cant lie down", "you should be doing X", anything to not stay under the tree, dont resist those thoughts, just observe them as they fly by, but take no action on them. Rest without guilt is a trait all masters must develop once they get past the adrenaline urgency phase of their skill mastery. Dont take your devices, dont take a book, just sit, 3 hours minimum. Go human, you are amazing!
- plasma_beam 15d ago
  Sounds amazing. Until the ants start crawling on me, my elbows itch from the grass, I hear planes flying overhead, an ambulance nearby, a souped out honda civic or some loud car in the distance, a freight train passing…that’s my backyard experience. It was a nice five minutes though :)
  - EA-3167 15d ago
    “Go to the park” the guy says, you complain about not going to the park, but just hanging out in your yard.
    - malux85 15d ago
      Yeah I laughed at that too - "I put in minimal effort and got poor results!"
fnordpiglet 15d ago
It’s hard to believe in 2026 someone would bemoan that nothing has progressed in cancer research. Cancer has no single cure, but survival durations are absurdly crazy for most common cancers compared to 30 years ago. Current treatments are like science fiction and are extraordinarily effective. The horizon is remarkable as well. It’s genuinely surprising to hear someone say “never any progress” re: cancer. I’ve nothing to say about Egyptian tombs though.

I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.

themythfable 15d ago

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throwyonion 15d ago
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candlemas 15d ago

In the related articles sidebar there is an article from 2020: Is this Nefertiti’s tomb? Radar clues reignite debate over hidden chambers A new survey hints at a previously unknown space beyond Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y

kaonwarb 15d ago

There may well be a surfeit of articles, but at least in cancer research, we've had extraordinary progress recently. See, for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5

dekhn 15d ago

While the popular press does bungle nearly all cancer research findings, the last 20 years have been unbelievably productive in cancer treatment. No, we haven't and aren't going to cure cancer any time soon.

BurningFrog 15d ago
The thing is that "cancer" is thousands of separate diseases with similar traits. We'll never cure all of the at once, which is what "cure cancer" means, but we've been curing plenty of them lately!
- timr 15d ago
  If by “curing”, you mean, “extending some indirect measurement that doesn’t correlate with survival”, then sure. Lots of those, usually backed by tiny, poorly controlled trials. Daraxonrasib was a rare exception. Most new cancer drugs are expensive and of dubious efficacy. Even daraxonrasib has a rather underwhelming life extension benefit, and huge side effects. But there’s no alternative, so people take what they can get.
- dekhn 14d ago
  There are two different "cure cancer" meanings. I meant, when somebody stops having cancer, we don't say they were cured. We say they are remission. That's because even if you completely remove all visible tumor, 20 years later, a new tumor with the same genetic/cellular origin can arise. But the other meaning- modified slightly: "it is unlikely we will find a generic treatment that affects all types of cancer, since the underlying etiology of different incidences of cancer varies so much", is definitely also true.

malux85 15d ago

Put your phone down, put your laptop down. Go to the park without your devices and lay on the grass under a tree. Hear the sound of trees. The smell of nature. Feel the sun warming your face. You mind will trick you, convince you "youre too busy for this", "youre hungry", "your back hurts you cant lie down", "you should be doing X", anything to not stay under the tree, dont resist those thoughts, just observe them as they fly by, but take no action on them. Rest without guilt is a trait all masters must develop once they get past the adrenaline urgency phase of their skill mastery. Dont take your devices, dont take a book, just sit, 3 hours minimum. Go human, you are amazing!

plasma_beam 15d ago
Sounds amazing. Until the ants start crawling on me, my elbows itch from the grass, I hear planes flying overhead, an ambulance nearby, a souped out honda civic or some loud car in the distance, a freight train passing…that’s my backyard experience. It was a nice five minutes though :)
- EA-3167 15d ago
  “Go to the park” the guy says, you complain about not going to the park, but just hanging out in your yard.
  - malux85 15d ago
    Yeah I laughed at that too - "I put in minimal effort and got poor results!"

fnordpiglet 15d ago

It’s hard to believe in 2026 someone would bemoan that nothing has progressed in cancer research. Cancer has no single cure, but survival durations are absurdly crazy for most common cancers compared to 30 years ago. Current treatments are like science fiction and are extraordinarily effective. The horizon is remarkable as well. It’s genuinely surprising to hear someone say “never any progress” re: cancer. I’ve nothing to say about Egyptian tombs though.