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The issue is false advertising. It doesn't matter if it works the same (according to whatever tests that are testing for whatever criteria that I might not shar
by ebbv 10y ago
The issue is false advertising. It doesn't matter if it works the same (according to whatever tests that are testing for whatever criteria that I might not share) if it's not what you were advertising and what I bought.
Allowing companies to advertise X but really sell Y because "testing says they work the same" is not a good idea. Very quickly artificial tests can be created that prove anything you want.
Pyrite works the same as gold for being shiny and yellow according to my tests!
- nitrogen 10y agoVery quickly artificial tests can be created that prove anything you want. I've had colleagues in the past who had previously worked for a product testing lab, and the impression I got was that the lab would devise whatever test they could to tell the client whatever they wanted to hear.
- fl0wenol 10y agoThis is the market abusing an assumption, that if you're paying a lab to perform a test, that the lab is providing the test or that some standard exists to compare against. But of course the lab will run whatever test you want, or they think you want, to get a repeat business customer. People hear lab test and think FDA approvals, an episode of CSI, or getting your blood work done, but these are different types of animals, some fictional.