Anna Robinson
Fish Fanatic
Sorry for hijacking the thread a bit, Guppy!
The lab doesn't just use lines of fish they have raised themselves, or use only wild fish, or test only in bare-bottom 'lab style' tanks, etc,etc. These are professional scientists who are aware of potential confounding issues. They also don't deliberately falsify data - quite apart from the ethics, what would be the point of this? It wouldn't be in the company's interest to do that, it would be more sensible to solve the problem, or put caveats in like manufacturers do with whitespot medications and scaleless fishes.
It's quite fair for people to mention their own experiences to help others, the problem comes when the other side is never put and something comes to be believed as an acknowledged fact, a situation exemplified here by Pip's post.
The lab doesn't just use lines of fish they have raised themselves, or use only wild fish, or test only in bare-bottom 'lab style' tanks, etc,etc. These are professional scientists who are aware of potential confounding issues. They also don't deliberately falsify data - quite apart from the ethics, what would be the point of this? It wouldn't be in the company's interest to do that, it would be more sensible to solve the problem, or put caveats in like manufacturers do with whitespot medications and scaleless fishes.
It's quite fair for people to mention their own experiences to help others, the problem comes when the other side is never put and something comes to be believed as an acknowledged fact, a situation exemplified here by Pip's post.
