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From: "Rich Lesperance" <richl@uf*.ed*>
To: <tgunther@co*.co*>
Cc: "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Slick of GRants
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:36:31 -0400
Tod,

I must disagree.

1) Finding stuff is not easy, admittedly, but it is there. Frequently the
title of a post (ie, "Another death") is not very descriptive of what is
being discussed, you need to poke around. Hell, look at the subject of THIS
thread....

2)
>>, no objective industry tests,
> etc.   Simply put, no concrete evidence that anyone on this list would
normally
> expect of any other product on the market that they are being told is a
> liability to safety.<<

Of course there are no objective industry tests. There is no such animal -
any industry is, by definition, biased towards its own products. It took
Ralph Nader to say "Unsafe At Any Speed", Ford sure as hell couldn't do it
themselves. No market pressure to do so.

As for concrete evidence, well, has anyone supplied concrete evidence that
sticking a screwdriver into a hot junction box is dangerous? No - they
arrived at such conclusions using the same type of 'observations' you deride
as unsound logic. Will you go, right now, and stick that screwdriver in the
socket without killing the power, first? Why not ? I haven't provided you
with objective studies saying it's unsafe....

>>, and when this evidence is not forthcoming (especially coming from a
> direct competitor of OMS) demand that some of the insanity stop until the
proof
> actually IS more forthcoming.    Diving should involve some modicum of
> integrity.<<

It's integrity that's causing alot of these people to speak out in the first
place. And who are the loudest? - the WKPP. Pray, tell, how are they an OMS
competitor? What does the WKPP sell, besides videos ?

Rich L


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