ABSTRACT

Even people with the utmost integrity are not always able to keep their conscious desires from subconsciously affecting their work and their conclusions. (For that matter, utmost integrity is not so common a commodity that we can safely assume its presence anywhere.) A researcher performing tests to find a diabetes cure may win fame and fortune if one of them is successful; otherwise it's back to the lab and obscurity. Under such conditions it's unrealistic to expect that the human beings involved will always be 1000/0 objective in their "search for truth."