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kaya'08 said:They have supposedly found a panacea for the biggest killer on Earth whose cure has eluded scientists for hundreds of years, for it to be mentioned only by "hub pages" which is some kind of blog website.
If such a thing where to happen it would be huge and it would be the biggest discovery in the field of medicine for years and the corner stone to modern health services. You would have to be either very desperate to believe this is true in order to believe it, or just seriously gullible.
I can think of several scenarios in which someone does in fact discover the cure for cancer, posts results on a website, and no one notices. Here are three:
1) While in fact the cure has been discovered, the answer is so simple, so unnerving, or possesses some other property such that the right people fail to take it seriously.
2) While in fact the cure has been discovered, someone with the power to do so covers it up.
3) While in fact the cure has been discovered, an unnoticed technical error in confirmatory trials leads us to believe disconfirmation.
The problem for people who take your position seems to be that you need a way to rule out these kinds of scenarios. How will you do so?
Just in case you think this is all too esoteric, you should consider that quite a number of valid scientific discoveries were actively suppresed, unnoticed, unappreciated, or otherwise ineffectual until decades, and in some cases, centuries after the initial discovery.