If you're fortunate enough to be desired by another company, they will go to bat for you in court. I've known a few people who had to do this because their skill set is only useful in a couple of fields and a non-compete agreement was essentially preventing them from earning a living. Sometimes just the threat of a…

Yes, the majority of infected people never show signs and many of them don't have active disease. It's only when you have active disease that you're infectious, and even then the signs are very, very subtle. The problem is we don't know what causes TB to switch to its actively infectious state, and a good number of…

Bacteria. And provided it isn't resistant to the drugs used to treat it, it's cureable, though you'll need to be on antibiotics for 6-9 months. If it's resistant to the first line treatments, it's possible you'll be on some really horrible drugs for over two years. If it's completely drug resistant (and there have…

I had several friends who worked their way up to restaurant management and wound up making less per hour because they were salaried but expected to work overtime. I keep wondering when people became employees first and human beings with lives second.

Why does nearly every person who is against raising the minimum wage suggest that the solution is for everyone earning minimum wage to just work their way up to management? Do they not understand that there are only so many of those jobs to go around? It's like the food pyramid: you have a large number of workers…

I was the main for my term caregiver for my terminally ill mother despite being fresh out of high school. I got a lot of help from friends, but family? Not so much. And my brother, who is a decade older than I am did nothing. Actually he may have done worse than nothing because I suspect he stole some of my mother's…

Several other posters have also found another problem: the researchers in this study compared thyme oil to the minimum dosage of ibuprofen, just 200mg. I'd like to know why they didn't up the dosages of both drugs to see if thyme oil continues to match the efficacy of ibuprofen.

Another problem has been pointed out in the comments here and on Facebook: the ibuprofen dosage used in this study is 200mg, which is the minimum recommended dosage. The package even says that if symptoms do not improve after one dose, take another.

I agree with you on most of those points, but what concerns me most is that most people don't bother looking for medical consensus to begin with. The general attitude towards supplements and herbal medicine is that they're beneficial at best and not harmful at worst. Combine that with a distrust of some aspects of…

If I may inquire, what prompted your apostasy?

I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. Why would distinguishing between the two matter in this conversation?

But they're misrepresenting the study to begin with. That's irresponsible. How many people are reading this and not searching for the original paper? How many people even know how to look through a scientific paper for red flags? Journalists who report on scientific issues are links between research that can be…

No, I think the biggest red flag was this little gem at the end:

Ibuprofen and other NSAIDs have an increased risk of stomach bleeding, acetaminophen (Tylenol) can cause liver damage.

That was another thing that bugged me. They could have encapsulated the oil instead of administering it as drops, since ibuprofen is available in liquid capsules that would reduce any potential bias.

It's getting to the point where I trust the science reporting at Jezebel almost as much as that at Natural News.

On the interactions thing: seriously. Take St. John's Wort. It can alleviate symptoms of depression because it has MAOI activity, but it also has a laundry list of drug interactions, many serious. When your doctor or pharmacist asks what drugs and supplements you're taking, they're trying to keep you out of the…

Indeed, but you don't need a degree to sniff out overblown research.

It's translational science blown way out of proportion. Anytime someone does some interesting research into the fundamentals of science, they have to connect it to something people care about. Just like every time some journalist breathlessly announces a new discovery that will lead to a cure for cancer when all…

Okay, did anyone at Inquisitr or Jezebel read the actual study? Because the authors themselves don't even claim that thyme oil is more effective than ibuprofen. They say that "Reduction of pain severity was not statistically significant between the two medications, however it was significant for each drug compared…