Comment by rad88
3 years ago
No, you can't actually figure out whether a cancer therapy worked by counting the number of articles published in a given year. You're focused on this "zero-knowledge" approach because you are completely ignorant about this topic, not because it is actually a more powerful approach.
If you don't even know whether spontaneous remission is rare then you should not be offering an opinion about this. It's not even pertinent because these remissions were clearly not spontaneous, but it should alarm you to have spoken so recklessly about a disease which is essentially fatal. What you're saying amounts to "there's a good chance cancer just goes away on its own". Incidentally, this is also the least amount of math I've ever seen in a napkin math argument.
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