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unpopular opinion: Janoshik is massively overrated

Question Sourced ×7 The Quiet One ×3

I have had 11 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 4 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 98.4% against a claimed 98.6%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/greta_perrin330 points·1 year ago

positive and negative reports both need the same evidence standard

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u/amara_haddad107 points·1 year ago·edited

positive and negative reports both need the same evidence standard

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 95.1% on the same vial is normal.

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u/receipts_or_nothingMOD189 points·1 year ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/signe_villalobos220 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/kaia_cabrera150 points·1 year ago
controversial sort brought me here and it was worth it
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u/patient_labslip_log92 points·1 year ago

HJ order #11, Canada, no drama, receipts inside

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u/gustav_vermeulen-2 points·1 year ago

Order date, product, and result, in that order please?

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u/kasper_cabrera51 points·1 year ago

did they reship, credit, or ghost you?

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u/dario_petrescu67 points·1 year ago

Batch number? Date? Method? Give us the load-bearing fields.

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u/spreadsheet_gremlindata76 points·1 year ago

Yeah, GL Biochem took 22 days and the material was flawless. Both of those things are true.

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u/alcohol_aversionOP42 points·1 year ago

the PeptideMeter result being close to the claim is the signal, not the absolute number

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u/britt_zamora101 points·1 year ago

receipts or nothing, sorry but that is the rule

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u/alcohol_aversionOP50 points·1 year ago

QST three times. First two perfect, third arrived with a gel pack failure. Powder tested 99.2% anyway, so no harm done.

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u/cormac_pereira13 points·1 year ago

receipts or nothing, sorry but that is the rule

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u/fatima_wojcik94 points·1 year ago

did they reship, credit, or ghost you?

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u/alcohol_aversionOP51 points·1 year ago

did they reship, credit, or ghost you?

Disagree on that part. 93.7% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/receipts_or_nothingvetting59 points·1 year ago

GL Biochem three times. First two perfect, third arrived with a gel pack failure. Powder tested 97.4% anyway, so no harm done.

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u/marta_vanhecke49 points·1 year ago·edited

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/rohan_krastev39 points·1 year ago

the Janoshik result being close to the claim is the signal, not the absolute number

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u/sofia_ferreira21 points·1 year ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/sig_figs_sammod · analytical44 points·1 year ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/bastian_aalto31 points·1 year ago

Correct. The batch number is load-bearing information, not optional.

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u/elise_grimaldi21 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 14 weeks, not 14. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/zeynep_zielinski7 points·1 year ago·edited

one vendor per post, multi-vendor goes in the monthly thread

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u/milos_vestergaard8 points·1 year ago

did they reship, credit, or ghost you?

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u/zaid_eriksen5 points·1 year ago

order date, product, and what was tested. that is the template.

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u/liv_dumitru2 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 96.2, not 96.8. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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