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In Reply to: A Modest Proposal -- with apologies to Jonathan Swift posted by Bruce from DC on February 27, 2007 at 05:42:36:
I own a copy of a classical-music review book from Consumer Reports. I bought it out of curiosity. It makes the point well that objectivity free of ethical taint but uncoupled to deep knowledge and passion, doesn't amount to sh*t.
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They filled them up with a gallon of water and noted which ones leaked or burst first.Talking from personal experience, this is a remarkably natural simulation of what happens in my real use!
in his column a couple of years ago noted that CR tested condoms based on how much "punishment" they could take before failing. That's where objectivism gets you.
No I don't. There's no limit to their belief in the applicability of their "methods" to everything.I get a laugh out of their deodorant and shampoo reviews myself.
> > I get a laugh out of their deodorant and shampoo reviews myself. < <I can still remember, almost verbatim, their dismissal of a whole shampoo genre: dandruff shampoo: "Any good quality shampoo should remove loose dandruff flakes," they wrote.
The next bottle of (non-dandruff) shampoo a bought got thrown out after about a week.
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