“Most People Are Just Completely Unaware That It Exists”: 30 Big News That Somehow Slipped Through The Cracks

In 2007, Time magazine had the greatest inventions of the year. Number one on the list was the Apple iPhone and was featured on the front page.

In an honorable mention paragragh, there was a machine created that can change the proteins in human blood so any blood type can be used for blood transfusions, not needing there to be a match in blood types before procedures are done.

Bispecific antibodies to treat cancer.

Why? It’s not chemo so no bone damage, no increased risk of other cancers, no long-term neurological problems, no hair loss, no digestive problems. None of that. But, it’s more effective than chemo and easier to administer.

It’s already approved as a last option for some cancers and works incredibly well in that setting. There are numerous clinical trials happening right now designed to prove that it should replace chemo entirely for some cancers and they are figuring out how to use it for more cancers.

How do I know this? My wife got in an early clinical trial and it put her in deep remission with almost zero side effects. She’s back how she was 5 years ago. No weakness or diminishment at all.

Almost nobody seems to know anything about this.

BCSteve:
Oncologist here, bispecifics are incredibly promising! You get the benefits of CAR-T cells without having to actually go through a bone marrow transplant, and unlike CAR-Ts you can reverse it just by not giving the drug. They honestly are pretty amazing, and I can’t wait to see more of what they have to offer in the future.

It's pretty obvious but the Epstein files. Each release is more vile and incriminating. But folks are still not angry enough.

maxdragonxiii:
It's crazy to see the world all over arresting people and USA doing... absolutely nothing.

MRNA vaccines are like this generation's moon landing. They are a staggering scientific achievement and the gateway to curing all kinds of diseases, and instead of developing this technology we're abandoning vaccines entirely and giving measles to our children.

unisia3507:
mRNA vaccines are quite highly rated but massively underrated. The fundamental research was done for years beforehand, but when push came to shove the researchers were just like "shall we work over the weekend and knock out a covid vaccine?". It was literally a weekend job to go from no treatment to a safe, well-targeted, and effective vaccine for a pandemic which was crushing the world's economies and ending millions. That's some sci-fi MCU nonsense. You could catch a cold and have a vaccine ready for that specific strain before you stop sneezing.

Jan. 6th storming of the Capital. 


Political candidate falsely claims they won and the election was stolen. Directs angry mob of supporters at Capital. Then ignores the responsibility of his government held position to intentionally delays response that results in the deaths of both police officers and protesters. 

mst3k_42:
January 6. Storming the capital like that should have had more serious consequences. And they sure shouldn’t have been pardoned.

The Panama Papers revealed a massive conspiracy of global tax evasion, no-one batted an eye.

The journalist who broke the story was quietly eliminated.

In 2024 an SSH encryption backdoor (presumed to be from Russia) had the potential to essentially wipe out 80% of the Internet. A German programmer named Andres Freund just happened to notice a tiny 0.05s slowdown on his computer, and from that, discovered that every version of those computers was compromised. Supercomputers, server farms, regular people all had this vulnerability.
When it was discovered and solved, the media was just like “oh cool- good find random guy!”


Mainstream media isn’t really technologically literate enough to understand how __severe__ this could have been. I’m talking planes falling out of the sky, banks failing, hospitals going dark all across the world. Like the crowdstrike bug on steroids. We were likely weeks away from this without even knowing it.

The Japanese figured out how to REGROW TEETH.

And I’ve only seen a few little blurbs about it.

New classes of antibiotics.

JesseCuster40:
Things like this are what make me thankful the world is full of people far more intelligent than me. I'm just trying to make it through the work week, and people are out there creating new antibiotics.

I kinda feel like the invention and rollout of PrEP has been completely missed by anyone who isn’t gay. We literally have a medicine, where if you take it regularly, you won’t get HIV. That’s a milestone that should be celebrated every day. Most people are just completely unaware that it exists.

CRISPR. We basically got a cut and paste tool for DNA and the world went yeah neat and scrolled past it like it was a phone update.

Handwashing.


A doctor implemented handwashing before we knew bacteria existed, and the mortality rate of his patients reduced significantly post surgery.

He was laughed at by his peers.

That almost all "recycled" plastic has always been burned and dumped, in global quantities that are absolutely mind boggling.

Substantial_Pea3462:
I talk about this all the time and people either don’t believe me or don’t care. And whenever I go to throw away something plastic idk what I’m supposed to do with it. This one just makes me so mad.

We stopped a global pandemic in under a year and invented a whole new kind of vaccine to do it.

The discovery of microplastics in human blood, placentas, and basically every organ in our bodies should have been a civilization-altering wake-up call but instead we just kind of went huh that's unfortunate and kept drinking from plastic bottles. We are literally finding plastic particles in newborn babies and the collective response has been shockingly muted. In 50 years we are going to look back at this the same way we look back at lead in gasoline and asbestos in buildings and wonder how we knew and still did nothing.

The discovery that the bacteria H. pylori is common cause of chronic upper gastrointestinal inflammation and peptic ulcers and is also a major risk factor for the development of stomach cancer (two different types of stomach cancer, actually). The researchers who made the discoveries were largely mocked for their theory that peptic ulcer disease could be an infectious disease. Their critics stopped laughing, however, when they won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2005.

For me, it’s the first image of a black hole.

We literally took a picture of something that doesn’t even let light escape. That sounds like sci-fi. A few days of “wow that’s cool” and then everyone just went back to scrolling.

I remember thinking, wait… how is this not a bigger deal?

The fact that we landed a rover on **Mars** and drive it around with cameras.

I really thought the stuff Edward Snowden risked his life to tell us should have concerned people a lot more.

That DuPont poisoned the whole world with microplastics and they're still allowed to do business. Children are being born with microplastics, it's in semen, and even in the soils of untouched areas in nature. I haven't seen so much as a class action lawsuit.