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In how many jobs, public sector and private, would you be summarily fired for engaging in a patent conflict of interests with your employer? The corporation my father worked for fired high-placed people who accepted substantial gifts from vendors to the company. No quid pro quo needed; just the inappropriate relationship was enough. No intent of bias is needed. Why do scientific researchers use randomization and double blind testing (where neither the subjects nor the researcher knows who is and is not in the control group) not only to demonstrate safeguards against bias, but to reduce opportunities for bias that are not even intentional.

Who is ultimately the boss. and who the employee, in a democratic republic?

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