I worked for AIER for about a year after college. They are (with a handful of exceptions) a bunch of clowns and the vast majority of their work is utterly vacuo

I worked for AIER for about a year after college. They are (with a handful of exceptions) a bunch of clowns and the vast majority of their work is utterly vacuous. I don't even put it on my resume. On the plus side, lunch was served every day in their castle, and after lunch I would take walks around their private lake. Fun fact is that the organization was founded to commit tax fraud. They operated a for profit investment firm with nonprofit status from the mid 50s to the late 70s, and somehow got away with it when the feds finally came after them. Afterward they ended up as a tiny research group with a massive amount of money, which they used for decades to fund research that no one reads. I should write a article about them because there are some stories.