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"He probably doesn't know too much about glucose meters, because he's not diabetic."

Seeing as glucose meters are basically only used by diabetics, your assumption that most diabetics would know that glucose meters are fraudulent seems empirically false.

Virtually all diabetics use glucose meters, despite the fact that they are basically the Iraqi IED detectors of medical hardware.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors...

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Virtually all studies (and there have been many) have shown that people with diabetes who use glucose meters regularly are at markedly reduced risk of complications than those who do not.

WRT the OP, unless you are advocating that the FDA should allow home genetics testing provided it is held to high standards, your analogy does not hold. As stated, it seems that you are implying that people would be better off without home glucose meters. a proposition that is demonstrably false.

> Seeing as glucose meters are basically only used by diabetics, your assumption that most diabetics would know that glucose meters are fraudulent seems empirically false.

I did not want to imply that assumption. I want to say that non-diabetics don't care about glucose meters enough, and he probably only brought it up for the sake of rhetorics.

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