[HN Gopher] I'll Tell You the Secret of Cancer
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       I'll Tell You the Secret of Cancer
        
       Author : wintercarver
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-08-28 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | wintercarver wrote:
       | Hard-hitting piece, tho not a cancer survivor myself my father
       | is. As his ambassador of sorts to the rest of my extended family
       | I recognize the unsolicited opinion tsunami the author describes.
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       | However, the part that really caught my eye was the reference to
       | David Spiegel and positive mindset research (or lack thereof). By
       | pure coincidence, I had recently come across the self hypnosis
       | topic via the Huberman Lab medical podcast. One app mentioned was
       | Reveri, created by David Spiegel's lab. I looked up the science
       | references in the "about" section and found a 1983 and a 2000
       | paper reference. Seems a bit flimsy to me, but am wondering if
       | there are not any more noteworthy publications to cite over the
       | last ~40 years?
        
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