The "Spontaneous Remissions" argument, used by Skeptics to explain away "The Obvious", is dealt with here:
http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/web_pdfs/isaacs.pdf
Here's a quote from the link -
"Case reports can point more strongly to the treatment as the cause of the outcome when more than one case report is presented simultaneously. Sometimes individual cases of resolution of cancer
are discounted as “spontaneous remissions.” Spontaneous remissions, in the medical literature, refer to complete or partial resolution of cancer for no reason that the physician can discover or credit. Spontaneous remissions are not common. The author of a book18 on spontaneous remission of cancer, Warren H. Cole, MD, said in a 1974 interview. “The phenomenon is extremely rare. Some investigators estimate the incidence is as low as one in 100,000 cancer patients.”19 Given their rarity, it would be unusual for a single practitioner to see even 1 case of spontaneous remission during their career, let alone 2 or 3. This would suggest that if an alternative practitioner can provide more than a few case reports with clear-cut unusual outcomes, there might be something worth investigating in that treatment." (Emphasis Added)
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