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> There's no inherent reason to prefer more "natural" solutions to medical issues. Patent-free availability and lower cost can be reasons. (assuming they work)
by ls15 5y ago
> There's no inherent reason to prefer more "natural" solutions to medical issues.
Patent-free availability and lower cost can be reasons. (assuming they work)
- Turing_Machine 5y agoNatural compounds can be patented, though. If you discover that, say, eating cocktail onions cures cancer, you're allowed to patent that. Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be.
- ls15 5y ago> 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?
- Turing_Machine 5y agoTechnically, yes. In practice, very unlikely...but you'd almost certainly be sued for selling "ls15's Anti-Cancer Cocktail Onions".
- ls15 5y agoI'd be sued for that regardless of its efficacy.
- plausibledeny 5y agoHave you ever been to a naturopathic pharmacy? You would question your assumption that it would be lower cost. People spend a lot of money on expensive supplements.
- ls15 5y agoNo, but I have harvested medical plants for free.