Cuppacoffee wrote:
'Independent review'? Looking forward to hearing how anyone would like to define that term.
Excerpt: Independent review is the practice of having an expert, but independent evaluation of a set of results or artifacts produced by an author or organization.[1] The practice appears in a large number of fields, including science, engineering, public policy, finance, medical practice, etc. In science, the term is often used synonymously with peer review.[2] The term is sometimes used to contrast it with an "in-house review" performed by someone inside an organization.[3][4][5][6] and: Conflicts of interest It is considered common knowledge that financial interests affect research results, and many people believe that funding can influence a scientist's findings. In the well known tobacco industry case, manufacturers funded studies seeming to prove that tobacco smoking was harmless. Scientists whose funding did not come from tobacco companies eventually proved a link between smoking and cancer. The British Medical Journal reported that, "Systematic bias favours products which are made by the company funding the research."[8] See here for further details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_review FWIW, I am still interested in the BDB but I am also interested in a few other machines. An independent review would help me make my decision.
