Re: suck out pathogens with a mini-pump?
- From: "Frank de Groot" <franciad@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:21:09 -0700
<a_weisman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Not criminal in the legal sense. Criminal as in amoral. Not criminal as
> in violating any criminal statute.
When an insurer tells a test manufacturer to make their tests less reliable
(less sensitive) "or else", isn't that racketeering?
> What do the test manufacturers get out of it?
Continued orders from the insurers.
They are at gunpoint.
> But the insurers don't choose the labs, the doctors do (with some
> exceptions but usually it is the doctor who chooses a lab if the
> insurer requires them to but not a particular lab).
There are only a handful of test manufacturers for all those labs.
I had a 3-hour phonecall with a german lab worker who told me that their WB
was deliberately made much less sensitive.
Noone ever gave a reason, but they did admit it, only after questioning.
> Lyme testing is unreliable from all labs.
That's exactly my point.
Those tests are *deliberately* inaccurate.
> It isn't a conspiracy that the tests suck. Some things are hard to test
> for accurately.
Bull***.
I tested positive. Then I needed to be re-tested. Negative.
The lab technician didn't trust it and decided to "develop" the WB longer.
Presto, positive.
She called the manufacturer, who told her: "We decreased the sensitivity of
the development fluid".
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