1)How can you possibly know if you have a complete list of all the possible Snoopy pills in existance? Because manufacture is unregulated no-one has any idea how many labs exist or how many similar pill stamps are used at the different labs. If you only published results once you were sure you had seen ALL the Snoopy pills how could you possibly know that there wasn't another variation being pressed somewhere?
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That is exactly my point.
Since pills exist in all varieties, publishing the contents of just one will not provide the right information.
It should be noted that exactly the same pill might contain something completely different.
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2)Surely people who read this board and others like it wouldn't be foolish enough to believe that there would be only one or two copycats of popular pill stamps?
Well, OK then, some of them MIGHT be, but most of us should know better. In the UK generally the pill reports would suggest that there aren't usually a lot of identical looking pills with very different contents in any given area. The recent batches of blue/green tulips, stardusts, fish/sharks, 007s all got similar reports for similar looking pills from different parts of the country. I understand that this may well be different in the Netherlands of course.
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I don't know all the details of course but I don't think it is safe to assume that "if a batch of this goes around in that area then they will all be the same"
Again, I think it should be noted that pills that look exactly the same at any given time can contain different substances.
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3)Do you not think that if a pill report includes ALL the relevant information ie date, place, size, detailed description of logo and scoring on the back etc that you can be resonably certain that it will be the same as a pill which has the same description in the same area around the same time?
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Exactly that information is food for the copycats.
The more details, the better "because it was tested on this or that site"
Don't get me wrong, I think publishing contents is great. And of course, doing so is very difficult (politically/financially).
However, poeple might draw the wrong conclusions and the whole thing is rather delicate.
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I am NOT advocating dropping pills without testing them here, I know I don't any more, merely saying that I can't think of any examples of two very similar pills giving different results when bought in the same area within a week or two of each other.
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Again, I do not think that that is safe to assume.
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4)I can certainly see how publishing good test results will give the copycats ideas but not the bad ones. Unfortunately if you only publish the bad pill test results if someone offers you a good one you will know nothing about their reputation and if you do not have your test kit with you then you have to pass it up or take a risk when an accurate report could have swayed you. If you take away the reports then surely the users, not the manufacturers have more to lose?
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I am not against the reports.
I think it is good.
It is also food for thought again.
That is what I am thinking.
In Holland, there is a database with results of 100000 pills but it is not open for us.
Only for the Dutch lab/test instututes.
Pity...
Anyway, publishing results is cool but it is never safe to assume that a pill that looks/weighs/whatevers the same contains the same substance.
Rgds
aj