Consumer Reports says the Sharper Image's Ionic Breeze air purifiers don't work. Many people believe this, not realizing that Consumer Reports sometimes can't tell its non-profit ass from a hole in the ground. Consumers Union has used a "fair and trusted" reputation that it no longer deserves one too many times for me to not rant about it. An excerpt:

Nonetheless, everyone but CU seems to agree that the testing of the Suzuki vehicle didn't meet NHTSA standards, that the trouble came after the normal tests had already found it to perform well, and that both the liberal 9th Circuit and conservative US Supreme Court found that the magazine didn't have enough grounds to dismiss the case before trial. Yet it clung to that Suzuki article like Tom DeLay to a feeding tube, using it to prove how "unbiased" they are because they "accept no advertising or corporate sponsorships."

I have news for you. My mother's cat doesn't accept advertising or corporate sponsorships either, and he's as stupid as a fuck rock. He walks into walls. He fights with his own reflection - not in a mirror, but in plain glass. I think that one time I saw him trying to eat cat food with his butt.

It's not all that funny, but neither is the subject matter. CU is again trashing a product for not being some other kind of product they find easier to test, just like they do with the Macintosh in their "PC" testing that's really "Windows PC" testing. They should be called on it, so I've tried.