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A comment on Anti-tumor activity of all-trans retinoic acid in gastric-cancer. Parent comment

Re:Anti-tumor activity of all-trans retinoic acid in gastric... by Podgajski on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:00PM (#38415150)
You’re making a false equivalent.

There are many other ways to control high blood pressure as well, and one of those includes diet.

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Re:Anti-tumor activity of all-trans retinoic acid in gastric... by Turing_Machine on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:52PM (#38418255)
> You’re making a false equivalent.

Not at all.

You: taking Vitamin A in a pill is unnatural. You should get it naturally, by eating organ meat (at the potential cost of getting sick from Vitamin A overdose, which is something that actually happens).

Me: taking an ACE inhibitor in a pill is unnatural. You should get it naturally, by allowing a snake to bite you (at the potential cost of dying from the snake bite).

There's no "false equivalent" here. The statements are exactly analogous.

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