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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
by codezero 13y ago
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.
- tluyben2 13y ago9 out of 12 is also not 100%
- westicle 13y ago60% of the time, it works every time.
- derleth 13y ago> 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.
- reustle 13y agoIsn't that what downvoting is for?
- tomp 13y agoOne can't downvote submissions, only flag them.
- lukeholder 13y agotomp, you can downvote after you have reached the right points/karma
- kintamanimatt 13y agoYou 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!
- gmatty 13y agoSorry 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.
- gngeal 13y agoFighting 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.