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You mention the import of being deferential in several other questions. Can you elaborate on that a bit, preferably with a short example?

2nd question: what would happen if you negotiated against someone as skilled as you, and using all the same tactics on you?

Tl;dr doctors on strike is still better than the shit fest on this side of the pond.

Thanks, Mythbusters!

It's like selling laptops with bricks inside of them on eBay

It's a lot worse than that. It's like going to the doctor and hearing "it's cancer. But you'll be ok, because I will pray for you." On second thought, that's exactly what it is, so I don't know why we even need to draw a simile here. If a doctor got someone killed this way, "malpractice" would hardly begin to scratch the surface of trouble that guy will face.

On the other hand, we apparently changed his mind on GMOs and that they're OK. He had been skeptical about them for ages, but the dude actually changed his mind when presented with evidence.