quality control

Recently at another forum we were discussing Gary Null's lawsuit against the company producing his product (JREF thread here) and a skeptic said: "This is why there should be some regulation in the supplement market. To ensure that the products that are produced have in them what is on the...

It seems to me that many people fail to check their work, instead assuming it is correct and creating messes for others to clean up. I've seen this a lot in IT, but I've also heard of it happening elsewhere too, so it doesn't appear to be specific to that field. A couple of examples ... A...

I'm currently reading one of the (many) books devoted to Edward Deming's philosophy of quality control. This book is quite unabashedly and unreservedly for it, and like many such books unquestioningly attributes Japan's post-war industrial strength in large part to Deming's work. What say ye...