[RunningDroid]

https://xkcd.com/1217 aka "just remove the cancer"

[MichaelZuo]

How is that “neat, plausible”?

I’ve never heard of any “solution” to cancer, well known or not, that was neat and plausible.

[martin_a]

I think you're about to understand the quote.

[MichaelZuo]

I think I already understood the quote at the time of writing the previous comment…

Hence why I quoted the exact words.

Do you understand it?

[status_quo69]

Not sure why you're being confrontational? I'm not the OP but it's clear there's some misunderstanding

The quote is: - neat - plausible - wrong

"Just get rid of the cancer" is - neat because it sounds obvious and tidy - plausible because we can and do cut out cancer - wrong because it ignores the nuance that cutting into a patient's body can have massive impacts on long term health. It can also be wrong because certain cancers have no tumor sites.

[MichaelZuo]

No, I don’t think there’s a misunderstanding, unless the parent has literally never seen anyone on HN quote exact words before.

They’re likely being dumb and/or intentionally misleading.

[AcedCapes]

The quote is meant as a type of sarcasm/humor. Meaning if a presented solution is neat and plausible it's likely going to be wrong.