It is just the opposite: a kind of intellectual restrictive practice, which allows flawed or downright shoddy work to acquire a standing it does not deserve.Part of the remedy proposed by Mr Castles and Mr Henderson in their new article is to get officials from finance and economics ministries into the long-range emissions-forecasting business.
Investors: to forestall the arrival of another costly financial crisis and help your overall portfolios, you must beware of misleading return on equity measures, monitor bank risks carefully, ask banks to stop lobbying against higher equity requirements, and demand that policy makers not allow flawed arguments and empty threats to affect their decisions.
However, to date lawmakers have been unwilling to correct the mistakes of the past, and have continued to allow flawed legislation to pick winners in the radio industry.
They may accept how easily the happiness they are currently enjoying in their own lives could be shattered if certain of their more regrettable character traits were one day to come into contact with a situation that allowed these flaws an unlimited and catastrophic reign - leaving them no less shamed and wretched than the unfortunate characters we meet in Greek tragedy or elsewhere.
It allows the flaws to work in its favour.
I'm not sure how a nation that prides itself on its democracy and fairness in what is so often referred to as the greatest country on earth could allow such flaws to persist.
Whether or not you believe that Andrew Wakefield is a savior, a misguided researcher with "his heart in the right place" or an attention-mongering, unethical "biostitute" the real blame must be shared by the world's most-respected medical journal, The Lancet, for allowing the flaws and potential conflicts of interest to go unnoticed.
This allows methodological flaws, which can lead to bias, and sources of variation that might lead to heterogeneity, to be identified.
Two security flaws allowed for discovery of location data against a user's will, though they take a bit of doing.
The flaw allowed anyone to discover e-mail addresses by submitting potential iPad identification numbers to the site.
