I am not medically qualified but find such a negative attitude puzzling!
HBP has been little understood and any advancement in understanding the condition has to be welcome as that is the only way to find a cure rather than throwing a cocktail of drugs which have serious side effects and which themselves damage other organs at patients for life.
Suits the big drug companies to have millions of people on drugs for life but that does not find a cure.
There has to be a better way than medicating patients with poisonous damaging drugs?
If this is a step in that direction it should be applauded.
And yes I am aware that the daily mail must be the curse of every GP surgery