On 07/20/2017 12:13 PM, Mad Roger wrote:
So, if you forced me at gunpoint to choose to believe something that a
Consumer Reports engineer published as fact, versus something someone on
Usenet posted as fact ... whom do you think I'd choose to save my life?

Be a toss... I haven't read the rag in a long time but years ago I was
amused by their car rating system:

inexpensive car -- a used Honda Civic is a better choice
midrange car -- A new Honda Civic is a better value
expensive car -- you could buy two Honda Civics for that

After reading the reports about items I had some knowledge about I
concluded they were going plain vanilla, middle of the road, safe bets
like the old saying 'nobody ever got fired for buying IBM'. With that in
mind I didn't really trust their recommendations about items I know
nothing about like digital cameras.