In 1998, Consumer Reports, for instance, found that 71percentt of store-bought chicken contained harmful bacteria.
Professor Tetlock suggests that various foundations might try to create a "trans-ideological Consumer Reports for punditry," monitoring and evaluating the records of various experts and pundits as a public service.
Consumer Reports, for instance, says they are bad investments because most electronics will not need a repair, but if one is needed the average bill is about the cost of the warranty.
Despite declining, consumer confidence in job security is still the strongest of RBC's four consumer reports for February.
Acting as a Consumer Reports for stocks, Schwab has a great service to offer; over the past year its "strong buys" have beaten the market, while the "strong sells" have underperformed.
So Ziv and former Microsoftie and veteran engineer Mike Cirello founded Silver Living to digitize the process and become what the co-founders hope will be a "consumer reports for senior living communities".
Other startups are tackling individual pieces of the in-home and care facility pipeline, including Silver Living, which is building a "consumer reports" for senior care communities, or those like TenderTree, which focus on the caregiver marketplace side of the market.
I've already praised Consumer Reports for standing up for Americans, taking on some really powerful and ruthless politicians.
Excited about the prospect of using these "consumer report" organizations for charity, they peppered us with questions about how these organizations worked.
The pharmacovigilance centre accepts consumers reporting for relatives; for example, children with access to the Internet could report for an elderly parent.
