"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Retirednoguilt wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
"[WASHINGTON] Federal product-safety regulators said Thursday that
their sampling of Chinese drywall emits higher concentrations of
sulfur gases and strontium than U.S.-made product, but found no
evidence so far that the emissions were to blame for health problems
and metal corrosion reported by at least 1,900 U.S. homeowners."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125682903154416173.html

Who to believe? The government or your own watery eyes?

Let me think...


Hey Bub-
The quote you cited includes the phrase "so far". And if you look at
the full Wall Street Journal article in the URL you included in your
posting (above), the second paragraph of the full article explicitly
identifies the government's report as "preliminary".

In your rush to condemn the government, you are ignoring inconvenient
information that negates your criticism.


You make a good point, yet your point raises an even more interesting
question:

If the results (so far) are inconclusive, equivocal, almost meaningless,
and merely suggest a hint of a shadow of a possible trend, why say
anything at all?


Because it's interesting, and because there are people who prefer not to buy
defective and/or dangerous **** from dictatorships.