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by z92 2395 days ago
I thought any of these experiments are carried out on two sets of cells. One normal and the other cancerous. Both exposed to the same test environment and treatment -- shear in this case. And when they claim "70% of cancerous cells died" they mean 70% more of the cancerous cells died than that of the normal cells, where "more" is defined in some acceptable standard.
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Yes, but it is not what they say or show. And as long as they don't publish anything more you should be far more sceptical than those journalists were.