Or was the whole point of his puzzled naive persona to make the point "we could be selling these, but because we take this safety thing so seriously we are not"

Or was the whole point of his puzzled naive persona to make the point "we could be selling these, but because we take this safety thing so seriously we are not". Most of HN, and all of Wall Street, knows they are not using their own tests. I doubt this investor is unaware.