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Originally Posted by nn0wheremann
I found the manual for the rapid test machine online. It defaults to positive if there is any anomaly in the sample, or the process.
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I am doing my very best to stay up to date on this stuff as people ask me questions about it all the time. I have never heard of any test for any disease or condition that defaults to positive. I frankly would like you to provide the name of the product or better the website of the "manual for the rapid test machine" I strongly believe you are making this up and providing the reader with terribly bad information.
The reason a rapid test is rapid is that it does not require a "machine" any more than a pregnancy test does. You found that manual in your creative imagination, I suspect as it exists no where man. This is why so many people doubt the science and the evidence, because anonymous people on the internet can just post anything.
You can produce a false positive by intentinally not following the directions for the test and deliberately sabotaging it. For example adding adding
fruit juice to the sample can destroy the buffer creating a false positive. That is not a test design problem.