On 2015 Apr 02, M Mangan commented:

With florid rhetoric in the discussion, this paper far over-reaches what the actual research accomplished. In the work, researchers dumped a variety of solutions on bacteria, and found bacteria opened some channel proteins to deal with it. This is a very non-specific response to anything bacteria might encounter, such as even a change of pH or some membrane-impacting detergents or altered salinity. Appropriate controls--such as just the active ingredients they claim in the title--were not done. Nor were controls for surfactants. The work does not support the wild claims that have resulted.

On 2015 Apr 02, M Mangan commented:

With florid rhetoric in the discussion, this paper far over-reaches what the actual research accomplished. In the work, researchers dumped a variety of solutions on bacteria, and found bacteria opened some channel proteins to deal with it. This is a very non-specific response to anything bacteria might encounter, such as even a change of pH or some membrane-impacting detergents or altered salinity. Appropriate controls--such as just the active ingredients they claim in the title--were not done. Nor were controls for surfactants. The work does not support the wild claims that have resulted.