Devolution, if really happening, would be extremely highly classified, they would not be at liberty to disclose any such operations.
Anyone who thinks they'd just come out and say it is patently insane. Q told us the importance of backchannels. That's why backchannels need to STAY backchannels.
If what Dr. Zelenko has talked about a few times is true the kids might not all be lost, he's talked in recent interviews about treatments being almost ready that reboot and strengthen the immune system as well as teach it to learn how to destroy cancer on it's own (there is grounding to the theory that what we call cancer is when the immune system fails to recognize bad cell replication that it normally cleans up all the time and it managed to run out of control. An immune system reboot allows it to again recognize and attack the problem.)