[LINK] Cancer cure through gene therapy

[Tom Worthington]

On 12/11/19 11:39 pm, Jevan Pipitone wrote:
> Any thoughts on this?
> "...  Patients on the brink of death were coming back to life."

Yes, a good example of sensationalist click bait. How to deal with this 
is an unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable, problem.

Such claims have been spread by word of mouth, both by well meaning 
people, and those out to deliberately dishonestly manipulate. However, 
they can now spread much faster online.

We can't easily have every item online fact checked. Even if we could 
technically do this, it would result in whoever controlled that system 
effectively being in control of the world, deciding what is "true" and 
what is not.

In such a world you could have unscrupulous media savvy people 
manipulate their way into positions of power. Oh, wait a minute ... ;-)


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