something drastic must happen. When it does, the results tend to be pretty revealing. The perpetrators, after all, werent think- ing about their private actions being made public. Consider the Enron tapes, the secretly recorded conversations of Enron employees that surfaced after the company imploded. During a phone conversa- tion on August 5, 2000, two traders chatted about how a wildfire in California would allow Enron to jack up its electricity prices. "The magical word of the day," one trader said, "is Burn, Baby, Burn. " A few months later, a pair of Enron traders named Kevin and Tom talked about how California officials wanted to make Enron refund the profits of its price gouging.     KEVIN: Theyre fucking taking all the money back from you guys? All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmas in California? BOB: Yeah, Grandma Millie, man. KEVIN: Yeah, now she wants her fucking money back for all the power you jammed right up her ass for fucking $250 a mega- watt hour.     If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, youd be right. Experts depend on the fact that you dont have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldnt know what to do with the information if you had it. Or that you are so in awe of their expertise that you wouldnt dare challenge them. If your doctor sug- gests that you have angioplasty-even though some current research suggests that angioplasty often does little to prevent heart attacks- you arent likely to think that the doctor is using his informational ad-     vantage to make a few thousand dollars for himself or his buddy. But as David Hillis, an interventional cardiologist at the University of