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Verified Atheist — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:10:00 +0000

In reply to Or the C.D.C. may choose to

Someone with a software development background (such as myself) would describe that as separating the model from the controller, and I agree it's not at all a bad idea, as long as someone is developing the controller (which is probably what the "sorry situation" is really getting at).

Or the C.D.C. may choose to

EmmaZahn — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:25:08 +0000

In reply to NYT to NRA: Let the people's gun research go, "What We Don’t Know Is Killing Us"

Or the C.D.C. may choose to focus on data collection and leave the policy recommendations to outside researchers. That would be a sorry situation for government scientists, but an improvement on the status quo

Why would that be a sorry situation? Maybe it is a residual of my accounting background but separating the collection and reporting of information/data from the end users, the deciders if you will, are best kept separate. It is far too easy for data to be skewed even if unintentional when the roles are combined.

There are many other areas of government that could benefit from a decent control structure as well.

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