I spent a good chunk of time last night going through more of that Arnie's thread and some of this issues discussed here are discussed there, but I think this discussion is still useful as its more detailed, we seem to be engaging people with less opinions and more solid contributions and the Arnie's thread after 28 pages was locked for a lack of progress in the topic. I don't think thats happening here so I would encourage the discussion continue here.
One conclusion several posters made before bowing out of the debate is they did identify the marketing spin of the document and questioned its independence and funding as a source of potential problem, and those posters did a full stop after that in dismissing the document. I am going to great lengths to try and validate the sources and credentials, so I think I am giving BioVAL much more benefit of the doubt than they did - I find the lack of cooperation in that process disturbing - you think they'd addressed it already given the debate over at Arnie's already.
Look back to my post on evaluating the credibility of a source (
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showpos...0&postcount=18) for more information about the problems of funding and independence of research.