LFH could facilitate and encourage this, and the process would stimulate more sales.
We do, but people who actually get off their arse and experiment are few and far between. There are a hundred keyboard jockeys for every garage lab-rat. As for publishing all our results, good and bad, we have not published experimental data simply because we have been involved in the development and roll out of a system for obtaining data quickly and reliably. Research so far has been incidental and relaxed. Beginning now we are changing over to a more purposeful and rigorous approach to testing.
FWIW, you are probably right about my mixing up guest and nchawk btw- as well as an internship at Cherokee with one at a non-existent IH. Probably because what a couple of desperadoes get up to is of the most moderate interest to me.And I really should not post after (yet another) 14 hour day in the lab, that would improve my memory for trivia.
ETA. Sales are of very limited concern. We have donated (in cash and kind) almost as much as we have sold. And invested 10X our sales at least. If LFH was a sales oriented company we would be selling something else. Anything else.