Question: What would you do if you found out the cure for cancer (would you tell everyone immdediately or experiment with it first)?

Iain Moal answered on 17 Jun 2010:

Well, it would be very unlikely that anyone would find a cure for all cancers, but if I were to discover a way to treat a type of cancer, I would be very eager to get it into the clinic as soon as possible, so as to help people as soon as possible. Of course, I would have to double check that my idea was tenible. To announce to the world a new way of treating cancer, only to later discover that a mistake was made, might raise false hopes for people suffering from the disease, and it would undermine the credibility of the scientists who announced it. Unlike politics or religion, science is all about trying to prove yourself wrong. If you try really hard to show that you are wrong, and fail, then you might well be onto something.