Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2018-04-22 11:41:59 UTC
Modified: 2018-04-22 11:41:59 UTC

Related to this (graphic in this page): Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth

The quality lie

Summary: Battistelli's patent-printing bureau (EPO without quality control) keeps lying about the quality of patents by repeating the word "quality" a lot of times, including no less than twice in the summary alone (highlighted above)

He keeps granting or minting lots of monopolies as if the more the merrier (reference: Bureau of Engraving and Printing)

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Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It

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