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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If this were true, I wouldn’t be finding out about it on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you should be reading Cell Discovery, then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How would reading Cell Discovery increase my chances of hearing about a cure to one of the world’s most pervasive afflictions on some obscure Lemmy post, and more puzzling, how would reading Cell Discovery make it more likely that some wild medical claim with far reaching implications would both be true and also absent from every other news source? What kind of magic does this Cell Discovery have?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That study, which is admittedly a bit above my pay grade, says that more study is needed. It doesn’t say that diabetes has been cured, which is the headline that media outlets have chosen.

My only point was that if diabetes was actually cured, everyone would know about it, not just you and me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, not much of a demand for such a permanent cure in leading profit driven health care systems where diabetes medicine is gold. How about MSN? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/world-s-first-diabetes-cure-with-cell-therapy-achieved-in-china/ar-BB1n7cNA

Though one does well to be skeptical yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Right? Media and science do not play well together. I can't count the times I've seen amazing new discoveries or cures heralded by the media that never come to fruition because they were only ever just theoretical to begin with or they were never replicated by any other researcher.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a news aggregator. Why wouldn't you find out about an early-stage clinical trial on Lemmy?

Any such treatment, even if it works, would take decades to pass through the various approval stages before being released to the public.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The headline isn’t ’early stage clinical trial starts the multi-decade process of developing a cure for diabetes’… the headline reads ‘diabetes has been cured’

Alls I’m saying is that if the headline as written were true, we would be hearing it from all news sources at once, not just some single post on a somewhat obscure news aggregator.