"The reason is **something called “spontaneous remission,” in which a very small minority of cancer patients, for reasons that remain entirely speculative, wipe out cancer cells and recover “miraculously.”** Some switch causes the patient’s immune system to eradicate all cancer cells from the body. These people would have been equally cured by drinking a glass of Vermont spring water or chewing on dried beef as they were by taking these beautifully wrapped pills. Finally, these spontaneous remissions might not be so spontaneous; they might, at the bottom, have a cause that we are not yet sophisticated enough to detect." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[spontaneous-remission]], [[statistics]], [[data-analytics]], [[fooled-by-randomness]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]