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Google might as well cancel all funding to think tanks now - because no-one will believe a single pro-Google word they say.

• mrguyorama 9y ago
  If only we could be so lucky. Think tanks are often shown to be biased or otherwise "poisoned", but the average person will refer to and quote what they WANT to believe. Is it even possible for a group like a think tank to remain "clean"? How would they get their funding?
  • gaius 9y ago
    The RAND Corporation seem to be universally respected, how do they do it?
    • dragonwriter 9y ago
      The RAND Corp is a military long-range planning project that got separated from Douglas Aircraft to avoid conflict of interest that would jeopardise Douglas’s eligibility for contracts, and then took on a life of its own. It still does a lot of federal work ubder governments of both parties, and's kind of important to that that it's not seen either as an shill for a particular ideology or a shill for particular corporate interests. That is, while advancing particular viewpoints is the purpose of some think tanks and the financial interests of others, it's neither for RAND.