This 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 comp

This 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.