First, I'm sure most researchers "work hard and mean well". If not, they'd be much better rewarded in almost any other line of work. I agree that the system i

First, I'm sure most researchers "work hard and mean well". If not, they'd be much better rewarded in almost any other line of work. I agree that the system is not perfect. However, I would also have a hard time saying that double blind is the perfect system (or even necessarily better). There are many reasons why it would be worse than the current system.