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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by refurb on Thursday February 05, 2015 @08:35PM (#9007305)
This kind of reminds me of all the "X cures cancer" media reports. It's not that hard to kill cancer cells in a petri dish (or in a xenograph model). Tens of thousands of compounds have killed cancer cells in models, but failed entirely in humans.
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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by lobf on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:14PM (#9007426)
Yeah, a bullet kills cancer pretty well. The trick is targeting just the cancerous cells.
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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by palmer_eldritch on Friday February 06, 2015 @08:41AM (#9008858)
Reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/1217
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