MASHdoc_SA said:

My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from an Indian manufacturer.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

Dr.PulmRoch said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

Pushing back on Dr.PulmRoch here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part.