And, it’s taken how long for them to figure this out? WTF?

Geniuses. All of them. Absolute geniuses. I wonder how much other stuff like this is out there, in the “sciences”. It’s no wonder we’ve got this whole “reproducibility crisis” going on, with this sort of crap experiment design being the baseline. If your growth medium doesn’t reflect the environment that cancer cells are growing in, how the hell do you ever get the idea that anything you’re doing with them is going to have any effect once you transition that treatment to an actual human body…?

This is the kind of crap that a half-way intelligent layman looks at, and goes “What the hell…?”. And, you wonder why so many people engage in magical thinking; the damn researchers are doing it, too: “Oh, this easily available growth medium (that doesn’t match the environment of the human body that these cells grow in…) that everyone else uses will not affect the results, at all…”.