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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 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.

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Sorry 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.

9 out of 12 is also not 100%

60% of the time, it works every time.

Fighting 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.

> 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.

Isn't that what downvoting is for?

One can't downvote submissions, only flag them.

tomp, you can downvote after you have reached the right points/karma

You 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!

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