Dan Kone
Well-Known Member
That's right. Those are called outliers. Most labs have a chemist who's job it is to spot them.variations in potency measurements
of up to 20% are not uncommon.
If your point would have been that it's possible for outliers to occur in analyitics, you would have been absolutely correct. This happens all the time and is extremely frustrating. Yes, outliers slip passed the lab.
However the typical margin of error is +/-3%. Just because outliers happen doesn't mean science isn't real. They happen in every industry that uses analyitics. So why would the pharmaceutical industry use analyitics if outliers exist? Because they don't happen all the time.
There are 10+ tests of Gorilla glue that comes from the same cut all testing over 30%, while zero out of ~40 tests from other sources test over 24%.
Is it possible that some of those 30% tests should have actually been 27% tests? Yes, absolutely. Is it possible that one of those ~20 24% tests should have actually tested 27%? Sure, that could definitely happen. However it's nearly impossible that all 10 of those tests, tests on different days are all outliers. And the likelihood that all 40 of those tests tested 10% lower than they should have is non-existent. It would be as likely as getting hit by a meteor while getting eaten by a shark while winning the lottery at the exact same time.
Again, it's really not my fault you don't understand science.
Your argument against analyitics very much reminds me of the people who say we should ignore the science on global warming because we had a snow storm. These are not equally valid opinions. One is correct and one is ignorant.