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This seems like a good question that's worth thinking about. I wonder if adversarial legal systems (where the job of deciding who is guilty of a crime is divided into the roles of prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge/jury) can be considered an example of this, and if so, why don't scientific institutions do something similar?
Nominating adversarial legal systems as role models of rational groups, knowing how well they function in practice, seems a bit misplaced.
Adversarial legal systems were not necessarily designed to be role models of rational groups. They are more like a way to give opposing biased adversaries an incrementally fairer way of fighting it out than existed previously.
I'm guessing scientific institutions don't do this because the people involved feel they are less biased (and probably actually are) than participants in a legal system.
But are they better than inquisitorial legal systems?
Arguably, peer review provides a vaguely similar function - a peer reviewer should turn their skepticism up a notch.