I'm glad that the author is thinking about ways to increase communication between scientific authors, but some of the statements he made, specifically regarding "curing cancer 2-3 years sooner" make him sound ignorant of some of the challenges facing researchers. Not all scientific knowledge is presented only through journal articles. As others have already mentioned, conferences with "poster presentations" are pretty common in medicine to discuss ideas before the paper comes out. In addition, labs across the country working on similar problems often exchange ideas and substrates by email and mail respectively. I agree that it would be great if there was a more centralized repository of information online to get information. If anyone has any experience with blogs, forums or websites specifically addressing oncology (that are not just press releases) I would appreciate learning about them.