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A comment on Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition? (2014). Parent comment

Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by ls15 on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:11PM (#30307621)
> Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be.

In the sense that a person with cancer could be sued for eating unlicensed cocktail onions?

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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by Turing_Machine on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:44PM (#30308396)
Technically, yes. In practice, very unlikely...but you'd almost certainly be sued for selling "ls15's Anti-Cancer Cocktail Onions".
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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by ls15 on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:07PM (#30308593)
I'd be sued for that regardless of its efficacy.
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