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What value do you think this pedantry adds to the conversation? Do you really think that many readers here were going to assume it meant a universal cure for all types of cancer and somehow be harmed by getting their hopes up for the second or two needed to read more than the headline?

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I've been scolded on here that some folks may be on the spectrum and not understand the implications of these sentences.

I understand that, but I also understand that people who are willfully ignorant and overly pedantic will hide behind any excuse they can get. To be clear I'm not saying all folks on the autism spectrum are those things, just that some people will appropriate whatever title they need to feel vindicated.

I would be surprised if anyone read that headline and thought that it meant every single cancer.

I found the headline confusing. It would have been helpful to include the type of cancer in it. Or if it's a pan-cancer treatment, to say so explicitly.

Surely that's why you would read the article, sentence one leaves literally no doubt.

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