I had a glimpse this week, sitting on The People's Inquiry for London's NHS looking at the capital's rudderless attempt to rationalise services.
Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing "was well managed by all agencies".
Officials in Eritrea, the biggest source of African refugees in Europe in recent years, have enslaved up to 400,000 people, the inquiry says.
Unions are obviously interested in protecting public-sector jobs, but the "people's inquiry" is striking a chord when it argues that the government started with the wrong question.
Another term employed by Ibn Ezra is hakhemei (or: anshei) ha-mehqar, literally "scholars (or: people of inquiry).
"The outcome of the people's inquiry points compellingly to the conclusion that the real culprits behind the 9/11 attacks were not a group of Islamic jihadists acting alone out of no other motivation than religious zealotry," reads the piece.
The Mushkegowuk Tribal Council, in an attempt to understand the suicide "pandemic" among First Nations youth, launched a "People's Inquiry" in 2013 and held hearings in a number of northern communities.
The people demanded inquiries into human understanding, and Chaudhary was trained to supply them.
The general manager, Dwane Martin, puts it in terms of the "capture ratio," or the percentage of people making inquiries who end up booking events or rooms.
What follows makes absolutely no sense — a buzzing, fidgety mess of bad cinema, with people barking inquiries over their cell phones instead of enjoying what used to be called conversation.
